1. Ensure Michigan is ready for an Article V Convention by passing:
Commissioner Selection Resolution (Model Language) To establish how commissioners will be selected to represent Michiganders at an Article V convention, how commissioners will receive instructions, and the limits on a commissioner's authority.
Criminal Penalty Bill (Model Language) To establish criminal penalties for an attempt to coerce a commissioner or for a commissioner that attempts to act outside of the authority given to them by the Michigan State Legislature.
2. To make Michigan one of the 34 states calling for an Article V Convention by passing:
Convention of States Resolution (Model Language) A resolution petitioning Congress to call an Article V Convention for the purpose of proposing amendments that: - Impose Fiscal Restraints on the Federal Government - Establish Term Limits on Federal Officials - Reduce the Size/Jurisdiction of the Federal Government
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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