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day, announcements for hourly "Chicken races" were heard, and the event also featured a "Backyard BBQ" competition.
not suppress attendance. Don Gardner and Ana Vergara came prepared to make phone calls to In-Progress petition signers in the FUT and LMT during what they anticipated would be light booth traffic, but the traffic at the booth was steady throughout the day. In addition to COS activities, Don was asked to provide Patriot Academy classes and make presentations to a political organization. Don and Ana gathered 38 signed petitions and counted it as a good event for planting seeds to grow and harvest in the future.
It’s my great pleasure to introduce Blake Edwards to those of you who have not met him. Blake joined our Region 1 team on September 21, 2021. My first contact with him was when he contacted me to tell me that he had investigated COS, signed our petition, completed his Volunteer Agreement, and was ready to start on his COSU courses. WOW! Don’t we all wish there were more people this determined?
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