Our Health Care Rights
One of the hardest things over the past two years has been to watch politicians and bureaucrats dictate to our doctors how to care for their patients, while shutting down most of our healthcare systems during a healthcare crisis. Our elected and non-elected officials limited the healthcare industry, told doctors how to medically treat (or not treat) their patients, dictated what medications they could and couldn’t prescribe, and defined what was “safe” in a medical environment where doctors had previously kept patients and healthcare professionals safe while caring for disease, viruses, and all other sicknesses, long before 2020. These types of arbitrary mandates and non-scientific dictates are some of the reasons why I was inspired to run for office for this district’s state representative seat. My name is Gina Johnsen, and I am running for the 78th District to serve the people of MI in the State House of Representatives.
I never thought I would see the day when our health care could be controlled by politicians and bureaucrats. What did they know about what we needed for medical care? How did they suddenly know more than the doctors we have been seeing and trusting for years? They never should have shut down healthcare, told our doctors what we needed, and blocked us from providing care, advocacy, and moral support for our loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes. We suddenly couldn’t see our own family members? Preposterous! Some of our doctors lost their jobs for doing what they thought was right on behalf of their patients. Others were threatened that they might lose their licenses if they prescribed the same, effective medications they previously had been prescribing for decades for all sorts of horrible viruses and diseases. So, who really stood up for our healthcare rights? I’m starting to understand why Alexander Hamilton said, “If you don't stand up for something, you will fall for anything”.
Many of you are as incensed over this as I am. Others may disagree. But, we all know that this was not handled in a way that dignified a private medical relationship between patient and physician. No civilized, developed country should have ever tolerated such insensitivity and abuse. Furthermore, as we progress in time, we see statistics revealing that our government was grossly negligent and lacking in transparency. I am so sorry for the loss of lives, and especially those who could have lived if they had received proper treatment in the proper timing – treatment our doctors already knew how to administer, if they hadn’t been hand-cuffed by an abusive, controlling government. Everyone wants the reassurance of knowing their healthcare decisions will remain between them and their doctors, and not critiqued and challenged by a government bureaucrat or politician.
I will fight for you to have the health care you choose for yourself, for your family, and with the privacy you deserve. Your health care decisions need to be between you and your doctor only.