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In January 2001, during Johns's tenure at Gentiva, his employer lost an age-discrimination suit. Damages of $30m were awarded against Gentiva by the jury. A report at the time quoted Johns as saying, "We are not pleased - and in fact, are shocked - at the size of the jury verdict" [http://www.homecaremag.com/mag/medical_suit_cost_gentiva/].
In June 2002, Johns was appointed General Manager of Marketing for North and South America at [[Swiss International Air Lines]]. [http://www.creativemag.com/onlweekly061002.html] [http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_ww.htm]
In his health care roles, Johns has advocated a moderate course on American health care policy, vigorously supporting the need to protect 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.
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 projects in post-war Kuwait, [[Turkey]] and other nations.
Johns has worked at the conservative [[Heritage Foundation]] and with leading figures on the American right. However, he has also been tapped by moderate Republicans, including former New Jersey Governor [[Thomas H. Kean]], U.S. Senator [[Olympia Snowe]] and former President [[George H.W. Bush]] (for whom he served as a White House speechwriter). 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 Angola connection: Michael Johns's visit to a UNITA training camp==