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Who We Are

Our country needs us. It's the way our Founders designed our nation to work—the American Creed, a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

COS volunteers are passionate patriots who love our country and work daily to fight off the demoralizers, destabilizers, and disruptors. While we tend to be a conservative group, due to our founding and endorsers, our solution is 100% nonpartisan and we welcome all colleagues, regardless of politics. Our mission is to build an engaged army of self-governing grassroots activists and this means teaching each other how to engage with local politics where our voices are loudest and have the greatest impact on day-to-day life.

 

What Is a Convention of States?

Our primary goal is to use Article V of our Constitution to call an Article V Convention of States for the purpose of limiting federal terms, spending, and jurisdiction. At the convention, commissioners from every state will create, debate, and vote (1 vote per sovereign State) to propose constitutional amendments to return our Constitution to its original balance-of-power structure which has been slowly eroded over many decades. We know exactly how the convention will run because we have conducted 42 or more conventions throughout history.  Article V of our Constitution provides clear threshold criteria for both calling the convention and subsequently ratifying amendments.

We also have an aspirational goal to inspire a spiritual and political reawakening in America. Our founders came to "The New Land" because of religious persecution and while they created a nation where we all enjoy freedom of religion, they kept God very present in the process with prayer.  Prayer is still practiced by our federal and state governments and God is honored by many government creations, like our covenants, pledge of allegiance, money, state seals, and more. Our nation was created for a moral and religious people.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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