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COS Serves: Self-governance in a time of crisis

We are all concerned about the current public health crisis and its impact on our communities, states, and nation. But as citizens who are deeply committed to self-governance, we also see this situation as an opportunity for us to put our hands and feet where our mouth is.

We believe that communities thrive when neighbors reach out to help neighbors. When those who have more share with those who have less. When each of us uses our own skills, talents, and resources to improve the lot of those around us. 

We don’t need a distant bureaucracy in Washington to take care of us. We can, and will, take care of our own.

So we're introducing a new initiative called "COS Serves." We're mobilizing our grassroots army to reach out to elected officials and let them know that we are ready to go to work to meet the needs around us. For instance, we might serve our communities by:

  • Picking up groceries for neighbors;
  • Checking in on home-bound elderly folks by phone;
  • Keeping an eye on kids who are home from school while their parents are at work;

and these ideas are just the tip of the iceberg!

Families helping other families, neighbors helping other neighbors--this (not big, overreaching government) is the stuff that made America great.

Join with us today as we care for our communities and show the world the power of self-governance in action. Follow this link and use our free system to connect with your legislators now!

Click here to get involved!

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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