--Contact the committee members and ask them to support HJR24-1024: To easily message the committee members, Click Here
HJR24-1024 is the resolution that will make Colorado 1 of the 34 states necessary to call for an Article V Convention to address term limits, fiscal restraints, and federal overreach.
The resolution must pass out of committee in order to have a full debate on the House floor. It is imperative that we do everything possible to let the committee members know their constituents and all of Colorado demand the Colorado Legislature do what they must to reign in a tyrannical federal government.
Our prime sponsor is Representative Rose Pugliese. And co-sponsors are Representatives Ryan Armagost, Brandi Bradley, Marc Catlin, Gabe Evans, Anthony Hartsook, Mike Lynch, Matt Soper, Rick Taggart, Ron Weinberg and Ty Winter.
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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