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COS Maryland - Get Informed

Get Informed, Make a Difference

Getting informed is the first step towards taking back our government

This is a grassroots movement and if we are to be effective in getting a convention of states resolution passed in Maryland, we need to be be able to intelligently explain to others what we are trying to do and why. 

We should all be knowledgeable of our state governments, of the Constitution and of our history. We also need to be engaged with our legislators. This is beneficial not just for this cause. It makes us better citizens, as well.


There is too much information to present on one page, so we've split it into two topics:

Maryland Government Overview
Convention of States Overview


 

Maryland Government Overview

A convention of states will only happen if two-thirds of the state legislatures (34 states) pass resolutions calling for the convention to propose amendments. Fifteen states have passed a resolution, but Maryland is not yet one of them. In order for us to be successful in Maryland, we must understand the process in Maryland.

Check out our Maryland Government Overview page for information on:

  • The Maryland Constitution
  • How the Maryland legislature is structured
  • How resolutions and bills are passed
  • How to find and contact your legislators
  • Legislators that sponsored or co-sponsored the resolution last session
  • Other useful information and links

 

Convention of States Overview

Check out our Convention of States Overview page for information on:

  • Why we need to amend the Constitution
  • How an Article V Convention of States would work
  • Other useful information and links


Maryland State Director: Michael Rilee
michael.rilee@cosaction.com


Convention of States Action - Maryland Site Links

Get Informed - Maryland Government
Get Informed - COS Overview
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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
Convention of states action

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