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COS Washington is Headed to Olympia

COS Washington Team's Surge Day for 2024 at the state capitol in Olympia is RESCHEDULED!

We hope you can join us for this special event on Thursday, February 22, 2024. Please click here to RSVP for this event. You will find more information and event details below. 

The Mission: In the 2023-2024 legislative session, thirty-five sponsors lined up to say that we want to join the nineteen states who have already called for an Article V convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which are germane to the following subjects: 

 1) Fiscal responsibility, 

 2) Restraints on federal power and jurisdiction against the states, and 

 3) Term limits for federal officials and members of Congress. 

We’re On the Move: Unfortunately, getting a committee hearing this year is now very unlikely, as this is a short legislative session (it ends March 7th). But we are definitely not giving up! 

We’ve introduced our Article V resolution in Washington every year since 2016, to a high-water mark of 35 members sponsoring in 2023. We expect even more growth when we look for sponsors again next session. 

Join our team as we also discuss national and state updates, find out what our plans for 2024 might involve, and get in the same room with like-minded individuals! 

Thursday, February 22nd, 10 am - 11 am: Meet & Greet at Wagner's European Bakery & Café. Follow this link here for the directions. 

11 am-12 pm: Washington Team Presentation: Meet some of our team members, find your District Captain, and find out more about volunteer positions, upcoming events, and our goals for 2024 and beyond. 

12 pm-1 pm: Visit the Capitol Building and greet legislators. If you are interested in sitting down with your legislator, contact us and we can help set up an appointment and join you in your meeting. 

Please wear any Convention of States merch that you can so your legislators can see that COS is picking up steam in Washington. We will have COS buttons available, so be sure to put one on before we head to the Capitol!   

If there is only one day a year that you dedicate to regaining our freedoms, make it Surge Day! 

 

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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