Blanket Immunity for Medical Staff Heads to House Committee
Jan 20, 2025
Tomorrow, January 21st, at 10 am, HR1168 titled “An Act to Provide Criminal Immunity for Healthcare Professionals for Negligent Acts or Omissions…,” will be heard by the House Judiciary Committee in Room 149.
After our family personally witnessed medical negligence within a large Children’s hospital full of top-educated medical staff, we can tell you the difference between negligence and medical staff being arrogant and refusing to hear patient or parental input. Conversely, we encountered some of the most professional and compassionate physicians who saved our daughter’s life, but, at times, didn’t have the answers we wanted to hear. The question is, why would any doctor or staff want to claim medical negligence? Unfortunately, this bill will give medical staff the go-ahead to claim negligence when, indeed, they knew what the outcome would be (considered malpractice). 
Shouldn’t every diagnosis, medical procedure, vaccination, or interaction be thoroughly researched by the medical staff and then told to the patient? If they did their jobs correctly, they would be confident to allow the patient to make an informed decision, but that isn’t always the case. Laws are already in place to protect medical practitioners from frivolous lawsuits, which is different from this bill.
But this bill doesn’t only protect licensed medical professionals; this bill (read here) covers all staff in any facility related to treatment, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice centers, and in-home care centers. The amount of abuse and neglect in these facilities is heartbreaking, but why would someone present a bill that would give any type of medical staff an excuse to claim their malpractice as negligence?
So why is this bill being presented now? Could it possibly be that for years, doctors have been pushing medical interventions and vaccines with known side effects but never took the time to research the adverse reactions or even ignored the evidence, like the new COVID Vaccine (see potential side effects here)? Could it possibly be that doctors and practitioners, who have willfully ignored adverse reactions for a chance at monetary kickbacks, are afraid of President Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services? Only time will tell.
Join Arkansas 1st News Tuesday morning at the Capital to hear the reasoning behind Representative Johnson’s bill proposal.
Missy is the author of “Crushed, but Not Broken”, a story detailing her daughter’s diagnosis and her family’s fight with CNS HLH. She has a passion to improve education and help children with disabilities receive the education and respect they deserve. Missy and her husband are AF veterans and have 4 children.
Keep educating people about these unbelievable but true bills that our elected officials try to pass. Most people don’t know what’s going on in our own government. We trust that our elected officials have our best I tests in mind. Naivety is stupidity.