Millions of Americans have joined the Convention of States movement, including a few names you might recognize. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been fighting for freedom long before the COVID pandemic.
During his run for governor in Florida, Gov. DeSantis committed to supporting the grassroots effort to call an Article V Convention of States.
“I know the states need to use Article V to take the power away from D.C.,” he said. “The permanent bureaucracy will never voluntarily give up an ounce of its power. I encourage all other state legislatures to support the Convention of States Project and pass the Resolution today.”
Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro have also thrown their considerable influence behind calling for a Convention of States. Rubin called a Convention of States “my kind of solution,” and Shapiro said a Convention of States is the “only way” to limit the power of Congress and the White House.
That’s not all.
Over 2.2 million Americans just like you have signed the petition from every state house legislative district in the country. Over 5 million have voiced their support for the movement. Eighteen states have already passed the Convention of States Resolution, and we’re poised to pass more this year.
Don’t miss out on this historic grassroots movement! Sign the Convention of States Petition below and add your name alongside DeSantis, Shapiro, and Rubin!
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