Convention of States | Gastonia Town Hall

No question our country is in trouble: +28 trillion dollars in debt (and growing), an out-of-control SCOTUS expanding federal power, career politicians serving only themselves and a feckless Congress politicizing every issue while treating states as if we were merely departments of the federal government.

Thanks to our nation's Founders, an Article V convention of states provides a way to bypass Congress to restrain their power. To do that, 34 state legislatures must pass COS resolutions. 15 states have already done so. It is time for North Carolina to pass HJR 233.

HJR 233, our resolution passed the North Carolina House on May 5! It is now time for Senator Kathy Harrington to step up and support this resolution when it is voted on in the NC Senate. We need you to show up and let her know you expect her to uphold her oath of office to support the U.S. Constitution.

Join us at this town hall event on Monday, August 9, 2021 at the Gastonia Conference Center at 145 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. Registration will begin at 6:30 and the event will kick off at 7:00. Our special guest will be COS co-founder Mark Meckler.

Learn how an Article V convention of states can put the three federal government branches back in their constitutional box and how you can help.

Register Here for this free event.

Learn more here about the Convention of States Project. If you have signed the petition, that's great. If not, you can do that here.

On Facebook? Find our event on the NC COS FB page, like and post to your timeline! And encourage your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to attend as well.

This event is free and we expect a packed house. Register here so we know you're coming. Doors open for registration at 6:30 and the program will run from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Questions? Email Clyde Davis at clyde.davis@cosaction.com or call/text at (704) 579-7179.

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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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