The dearth of outrage from medical professionals over health care policy mismanaged by politicians and health departments is a result of fear. Not fear of COVID but fear of speaking against the political narrative. Licensing boards have silenced them with threats of pulling their licenses.
We’ve seen some of that in the daylight, but most of it is behind closed doors. The result is a significant number of health care professionals going along to get along because openly objecting could end their careers.
Either the state, licensing bureaus, their employers (Hospitals or health networks), or third parties could make their lives miserable up to and including being unable to practice in the state. But not in Nebraska.
In Nebraska, they value freedom of speech for doctors and other healthcare providers
If you are a doctor, you can prescribe ivermectin to a patient and you will not have your license to practice medicine revoked. Yes, that was not a typo.
The reason is due to a provision in Nebraska law that makes the Medical Boards accountable to the Attorney General’s office. The Boards can’t revoke a license without the AG’s consent.
Nebraska, at least in this instance, is fulfilling its only proper duty, protecting the rights of its citizens even if it means protecting them from themselves.
And while referring all such cases to the AG is no guarantee things will be better, that might be worse, it opens up the process to not so much litigation but discussion.
I’m not sure if we have any such protection here in the Granite State. I know that the government, at least the executive and judicial branches, has abrogated its responsibility to protect our rights. COVID proved that when the courts said yes, the Governor could suspend the constitution.
No. No, he can’t. The legislature cannot give him the authority any more than a judge in another branch of state government can do it. But they did it. It’s not a power you’d give to Donald Trump, right Dems? Therefore, it is not suitable for any human being regardless of party and without some immediate remedy in the form of a check or balance.
Yes, the NH Legislature could overturn an emergency order, but they’d have to be in session to do that, and when not in session, you need the Governor to call an emergency session. There may be another way, but my memory escapes me. Whatever the deal, a significant number of elected officials at every level and many others failed the COVID test.
The right of medical professionals to speak out against treatment plans was one of the most offensive.
Government cannot exist to protect rights if it refuses to do that.
In Nebraska, at least, while not a perfect solution, they’ve placed a check between arbitrary abuse by boards and (in this case) the right to free speech by medical professionals. A circumstance we never really considered or spent much time pondering until the COVID Cult turned its sinister gaze upon us.
