Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Nickname: The Queen City Political Statistics Founded 1762 County Lehigh County Mayor Ed Pawlowski Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 46. ... Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ... This law-related article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ...

Biography

Johns was born in Allentown and graduated from Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania in 1982. He received a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1986. He also attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. He resides currently in Deptford, New Jersey. Emmaus High School is a public high school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... Emmaus is a borough located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor degree in Business Administration. ... The University of Miami, sometimes called UM or The U, is a private university, founded in 1925, with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States. ... The City Beautiful Location of Coral Gables in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348, refounded 1557 Sister College(s) Brasenose College Master Sir Christopher Hum Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Postgraduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Deptford Township highlighted in Gloucester County. ...

Health care industry

A major force in corporate health care, Johns has served with global pharmaceutical powerhouse Eli Lilly, in the health care practice of a leading Philadelphia consulting firm and, since 2000, as vice president of Gentiva Health Services, a Fortune 1000 corporation. As part of Gentiva senior management, Johns has helped lead a quintupling of the company's market capitalization and one of the largest health care acquisitions in recent years[1]. He also has defended the interests of publicly-traded companies, including as a founding member of the CEO Council. Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and logos (λόγος) meaning science) is the study of how chemical substances interact with living systems. ... One of the worlds largest corporations, Eli Lilly and Company NYSE: LLY is a global pharmaceutical company. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City, the City that Loves You Back Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country State County United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia Founded Incorporated October 27, 1682 October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... An American health care company, Gentiva Health Services is the largest provider of home health and specialty pharmaceutical services in the United States. ... Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a measurement of corporate size that refers to the current stock price times the number of outstanding shares. ...

In his health care roles, Johns has advocated a moderate course on American health care policy, supporting increased biopharmaceutical and free market health care innovation, while simultaneously defending the need to protect Medicare, Medicaid and other governmental health programs for the nation's elderly, poor and disabled. A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... Medicare is a health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the USA. It was first passed on July 30, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security legislation. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Government and public policy

A versatile and influential advocate for many of the prominent themes of mainstream conservatism, Johns also has held high-level posts in American government and public policy. His writings on American foreign policy in the 1980s helped shape and promote the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. He was one of the original advocates of the so-called "Reagan Doctrine," successfully urging the United States to support forces opposing Soviet client states and one of the first Reagan Doctrine advocates to actually visit the front lines of these hot spots (Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and the former Soviet Republics) with regularity. Johns also was a close advisor to Angola's Jonas Savimbi, whose Cold War conflict with Soviet-aligned Angola became a central Cold War sub-plot. President Reagan, with his Cabinet and staff, in the Oval Office (February 4, 1981) Headed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989, the Reagan Administration was conservative, steadfastly anti-Communist and in favor of tax cuts and smaller government. ... The Reagan Doctrine was an important Cold War strategy by the United States to oppose the influence of the Soviet Union by backing anti-communist guerrillas against the communist governments of Soviet-backed client states. ... Evolution of the Soviet Republics from 1922 to 1958. ... Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (August 3, 1934–February 22, 2002) was a rebel leader in Angola who founded the UNITA movement in 1966, and ultimately proved a central figure in 20th century Cold War politics. ... The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their military alliance partners. ...

He is credited with helping shift Washington's intellectual tide away from containment of the Soviet Union (as advocated by post-war American leaders, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman) and toward a more aggressive approach dedicated to the "rollback" of global communism. Many historians now credit this latter approach with leading, or at least accelerating, the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Containment refers to the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War in which it attempted to stop what it called the Domino Effect of nations moving politically towards Soviet Union-based Communism, rather than European-American-based Capitalism. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice-President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... Rollback was a term used by American foreign policy thinkers during the Cold War. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...

Johns also was one of the most vocal U.S. conservatives in defending Ronald Reagan's controversial description of the former Soviet Union as an "evil empire." In a lengthy Policy Review article, "Seventy Years of Evil: Soviet Crimes from Lenin to Gorbachev," for instance, Johns labeled the Soviet system "history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror" and lambasted its "crushing of the human spirit." He offered 208 examples, dating back to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, that, he argued, warranted the labeling of the Soviet system as evil.[2] For other uses, see Ronald Reagan (disambiguation). ... The term evil empire was applied to the former Soviet Union (USSR) by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, American conservatives, and Cold War hawks after Soviet fighters shot down Korean Air Flight 007 in 1983. ... Policy Review is one of Americas leading conservative journals. ... The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution or November Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... In religion and ethics, evil refers to the bad aspects of the behaviour and reasoning of human beings —those which are deliberately void of conscience, and show a wanton desire for destruction. ...

Following the Cold War's end, Johns helped advance pro-active American engagement in the post-Cold War world, running U.S. government-funded international economic and political development programs in post-Gulf War Kuwait, Turkey and other nations. Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf, Sir Patrick Hine, Michel Roquejeoffre Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Hussein Kamel Strength 660,000 545,000 Casualties 345 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 - 100,000 dead, 100,000 - 300,000 wounded The 1991 Gulf War (also called the...

In the 1990s, he also was a prominent critic of several components of the Clinton administration's foreign policy. As the United Nations, with support from the Clinton administration, began repatriating Thailand-based Hmong veterans from Vietnam's "Secret War" to Laos, Johns was one of several influential opponents of the policy, labeling the repatriation a "betrayal"[3]. Johns' position on the issue drew support, and the U.N. repatriation ultimately was haulted. Tens of thousands of Hmong refugees at Wat Tham Krabok and various Thailand refugee camps subsequently were afforded expedited United States immigration rights. William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Repatriation (from late Latin repatriare - to restore someone to his homeland) is a term used to describe the process of return of refugees or soldiers to their homes, most notably following a war. ... The Hmong, also known as Miao (considered derogatory by some: see below) (Chinese: 苗; Pinyin: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mèo or HMông; Thai: แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong); Burmese: mun lu-myo), Hmong: Hmoob, are an Asian ethnic group speaking the Hmong language, whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of... The Secret War (1962-1975) was the Laos front of the Second Indochina War. ... Wat Tham Krabok (วัดถ้ำกระบอก, literally Temple of the Bamboo Cave) is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Thailand, located in the Phra Phutthabat district of Saraburi Province. ...

Johns has been a leading national voice while at the conservative Heritage Foundation and has worked closely with leading figures on the American right. But he also has been tapped by moderate Republicans, including former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe and President of the United States George H. W. Bush (for whom he served as a White House speechwriter) to help advance Republican policies. In the first Bush White House, he helped define and advocate some of the policies that have come to be known as "compassionate conservatism," focusing on outreach to low and middle-income Americans and non-traditional Republican constituencies. The Heritage Foundation, a think tank located in Washington, D.C., is an influential public policy research institute whose stated mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. ... Thomas Howard Kean (born April 21, 1935 in New York City) is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990. ... Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (born February 21, 1947 in Augusta, Maine) is a Republican politician and the senior United States senator from Maine. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States of America (1989–1993). ...

Career

• Vice president, Gentiva Health Services (Nasdaq: GTIV) [4], Long Island, New York.
• Senior associate, health care practice, S. R. Wojdak & Associates, Philadelphia.
• Manager, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), [5], Indianapolis.
• Director of research, International Republican Institute, Washington, D.C.
• White House speechwriter to President of the United States George H. W. Bush.
• Special assistant to former New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean.
• Policy analyst, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
• Assistant editor, Policy Review magazine, Washington, D.C.
• Author of U.S. and Africa Statistical Handbook (The Heritage Foundation, 1990; second ed., 1991).
• Contributing author of Finding Our Roots, Facing Our Future: America in the 21st Century (Madison Books, 1997); and Freedom in the World: The Annual Guide of Political Rights and Civil Liberties (Freedom House, 1993).
• He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National Review, Freedom House's Freedom Review and other publications.
• National television appearances include PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Nightly Business Report, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox Morning News and others.
• Inducted into University of Miami's prestigious Iron Arrow Honor Society, 1984.

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