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Myth Busting: George Soros will take it over

Myth

George Soros will take over the convention

 

Fact

This is just another version of the runaway convention scare tactic.

Soros himself doesn't even believe he can take over a COS convention.  That's why he opposes us at every opportunity through organizations like Common Cause.  If he thought he could hijack a COS convention, he wouldn't be opposing it.

Other Article V efforts

But the left does try to advance their own amendments through the state-led route (WolfPAC, Move To Amend)

Why would the left mount multiple Article V campaigns, not only separate and distinct from the Convention of States effort, but separate and distinct from themselves?  

Simple.  

They know a convention has to be scoped.  And they won’t control the agenda at a COS convention.

That right there tells you the convention can be limited and it tells you all the players in this domain KNOW it can be limited.  If the left thought they could take over a COS convention, they wouldn’t be opposing it.

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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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