For 248 years, we have been blessed to live in the freest nation on earth. Unfortunately, that freedom is slowly slipping away from us. Now, we each must decide what kind of nation we will be — not only for ourselves but also for the next generation.
It would be irresponsible of us not to do our utmost to ensure our kids and grandkids enjoy the same freedoms we grew up with. Sometimes, in moments of despair, we begin to wonder if we have become too self-seeking to concern ourselves with the future of this nation. Perhaps we have lost faith that America is worth fighting for. Perhaps our country’s best days are behind us.
But then we look at you, the grassroots, and we realize that hope is not lost. Hope is not lost because you have not surrendered it.
We cannot afford to wait. Freedom may be lost in our generation if we do not do something about it. We must stage the great American Comeback — today. Not when we have the time for it. Not when it’s convenient. Not next year.
In 2024.
Right here, right now.
We are fighting for their America. We are fighting because the next generation deserves to live in a nation where they know what it means to be free.
Will you join us?
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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