Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced legislation Wednesday to protect a doctor’s right to treat patients and to reassert that the federal government’s agencies have no authority to restrict lawful prescribing or dispensing of FDA-approved or Right to Try drugs.
Johnson, who has spearheaded efforts to break the silencing of physicians and scientists on the issue of early treatment for COVID-19, joined with Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) to launch the Right to Treat Act to confirm the doctor-patient relationship is at the center of treatment decision-making, and not the federal government.
The senator reflected on the recent attempts to usurp control of the private medical decisions of Americans who have suffered from COVID disease, and the toll these authoritarian tactics have taken on the nation:
The pandemic exposed the fact that many doctors no longer call the shots when it comes to treating patients, the COVID Cartel does. The COVID Cartel includes the Biden administration, federal health agencies, Big PHARMA, mainstream media, and Big Tech. The Right to Treat Act would ensure that federal health agencies return to their proper functions of gathering and providing public health data and regulating drug safety – not telling doctors how to practice medicine. Because federal health agencies sabotaged the early treatment of COVID-19 using widely available and safe generic drugs, an untold number of people needlessly died from COVID-19. Americans and doctors should have the freedom to use fully approved drugs without fear of reprisal. It’s time to once again let doctors be doctors and allow them to fully practice medicine.
Why haven't we let doctors be doctors?
Dr. Paul Marik's experience treating Covid-19 patients is heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/enM8tA7hd6— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) January 24, 2022
From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Johnson has spearheaded efforts to highlight the need for early treatment of COVID-19 infection.
His office provided a list of hearings and panel discussions the senator has conducted:
In May 2020, he held a roundtable entitled, “COVID-19: How New Information Should Drive Policy.” In November 2020, he held a hearing entitled, “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution.” In December 2020, he held a hearing entitled, “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution, Part II.” In January 2022, he held a discussion entitled “COVID-19: A Second Opinion.”
In the most recent event in January, Johnson said U.S. health officials had orchestrated a pandemic response based on “fear to ensure compliance.”
.@PierreKory says our COVID policies are putting profits ahead of patients. pic.twitter.com/IeQbFabgmW
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) January 24, 2022
The senator highlighted the work of the physicians who have developed early treatment protocols and successfully treated patients with COVID illness. Some told their stories of being censored and silenced, forbidden to provide long-established medications, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, to their patients with COVID as they watched them die.
Johnson also noted during the event he had invited federal health agency leaders to the panel discussion, including Drs. Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and Francis Collins, and the CEOs of drug companies Pfizer and Moderna, but all declined the invitation.
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Susan Berry, PhD, is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Ron Johnson” by United States Senate Photographic Studio. Background Photo “Doctor Greeting Patient” by Vic. CC BY 2.0.
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