Public Health & Emergency Powers
PROPOSED / DRAFT: PUBLIC HEALTH, MEDICAL FREEDOM & EMERGENCY POWERS
POSITION
COVID-19 was a real illness. That did not justify misleading statistics, censorship, indefinite emergency rule, blanket lockdowns, coerced medical decisions, or the destruction of livelihoods and education. A public-health emergency does not suspend the Constitution.
The Moderate Party of America opposes government lockdowns, blanket business and school closures, vaccine passports, compelled medical treatment, censorship of lawful medical debate, and any attempt to condition basic civil rights on compliance with a government medical directive.
WHY THIS MATTERS
COVID-era policies affected employment, education, mental health, ordinary medical care, small businesses, religious exercise, family life, and civil liberties. Government often measured the intended benefit of restrictions without fully measuring the deaths, illness, poverty, learning loss, delayed treatment, isolation, and economic damage those restrictions could cause.
Public policy must evaluate the whole consequence of an intervention. It is not enough to claim that a restriction might help one objective while ignoring the harm it causes elsewhere.
WHAT MPA WILL DO
Prohibit blanket stay-at-home orders and blanket closures of businesses, schools, and houses of worship.
Prohibit government vaccine passports and government requirements that condition employment, education, travel within the United States, public accommodation, or the exercise of civil rights on receiving a medical procedure.
Protect informed consent and the right of patients to make medical decisions with their chosen healthcare professionals.
Protect physicians, scientists, patients, journalists, and citizens from government retaliation or censorship for lawful disagreement, good-faith medical analysis, or reporting adverse events.
Require prompt public release of the evidence, models, definitions, assumptions, conflicts of interest, contracts, meeting records, and regulatory analyses used to support major emergency policies.
Require public reporting to distinguish deaths caused by a disease, deaths involving a disease, and cases in which causation remains uncertain.
Require transparent reporting of serious adverse events and continued review of the safety and effectiveness of medical products.
Preserve access to courts and meaningful due process throughout every emergency.
Provide a fair and workable process for people with verified vaccine or other emergency-treatment injuries to seek compensation.
Conduct independent after-action investigations of the COVID response, including public-health claims, mandates, closures, censorship, procurement, conflicts of interest, treatment restrictions, economic harm, educational harm, delayed medical care, mental-health effects, and excess mortality.
LIMITS ON EMERGENCY POWER
An executive may respond to an immediate threat only under authority granted by law. Continued extraordinary restrictions must require an affirmative, recorded vote of the appropriate legislature at regular intervals. Every emergency order must identify:
The constitutional and statutory authority relied upon.
The specific and measurable threat being addressed.
The evidence supporting the action.
The people, activities, and geographic areas affected.
The expected benefit and the method used to estimate it.
The economic, medical, educational, psychological, and civil-liberty costs.
The less restrictive alternatives considered.
The expiration date and the conditions for earlier termination.
Emergency orders must automatically expire unless lawfully renewed. Courts must remain open for prompt review. Agencies may not use emergency declarations to create permanent powers that the legislature never enacted.
MEDICAL FREEDOM & ACCOUNTABILITY
Adults must remain free to accept or decline a medical procedure after receiving truthful information about known benefits, known risks, reasonable alternatives, and material uncertainty. Government may provide information and make recommendations. It may not replace informed consent with coercion.
No corporation, agency, medical institution, or public official should be permitted to knowingly conceal, falsify, destroy, or manipulate material safety or effectiveness evidence. Proven fraud, bribery, evidence destruction, unlawful censorship, and intentional falsification should be investigated and prosecuted under the same laws that apply to everyone else.
HOW SUCCESS WILL BE JUDGED
After every declared public-health emergency, an independent public report should compare projected and actual outcomes, including mortality using transparent definitions, delayed or foregone medical care, mental-health effects, school disruption and learning loss, business closures, unemployment, poverty, civil-liberty restrictions, adverse-event reporting, judicial rulings, public spending, procurement failures, and excess deaths from all causes.
Policies that fail, cause disproportionate harm, or rest on materially incorrect evidence must be ended and publicly corrected.
An emergency does not suspend the Constitution. Public health does not erase medical freedom. Government must tell the truth and answer for the full consequences of its decisions.
Antimicrobial Resistance
Hospitals, nursing facilities, and other federally reimbursed inpatient facilities must maintain an antimicrobial-stewardship program led by qualified clinical personnel and report defined resistance and healthcare-associated infection data in a standardized form.
Stewardship rules must support clinically necessary treatment and may not be used as a blanket reason to deny antibiotics when a treating professional documents a legitimate indication.
Federal health agencies should maintain a national resistance-surveillance system, publish regional trend data, and issue rapid alerts when a dangerous resistant organism is spreading.
Medicare, Medicaid, and federal employee health plans should cover clinically appropriate rapid diagnostic testing when it can materially guide antimicrobial treatment and reduce unnecessary broad-spectrum use.
Use of medically important antibiotics in food animals should require veterinary oversight and a documented animal-health purpose rather than routine use solely for growth promotion.
Federal research and procurement programs may use milestone prizes, targeted grants, or limited market guarantees for genuinely new antibiotics, diagnostics, vaccines, and alternatives, with public terms, performance milestones, and clawbacks for failure.
Annual reporting must track resistance rates, infection rates, antibiotic use, diagnostic access, new treatments, agricultural use, and public spending.
Related policies: Biosecurity & Dual-Use Biotechnology; Healthcare; Mental Health & Psychiatric Care; Personal Rights & Freedoms; Government Integrity & Equal Justice.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Originally published: August 15, 2026.
Last updated: September 25, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.6.