List of COS Acronyms

Not quite up to speed yet with all of the Convention of States acronyms and special terms you see flying around on Slack and in other communications? Here's the place to check for a definition. If you don't find what you're looking for, let us know in the COSTX tech-help Slack channel, or shoot an email to sia.tx@cosaction.com.

2A - Second Amendment

A5 - Article V of the Constitution

APPAS - Automated Point Person Assignment System (No longer used - used by NB)

Blast - Term used for wide-scale email, generally from MailChimp

CB - CitizenBuilder (core software system that replaced NB)

CD - Coalitions Director (a COS leadership role)

COS - Convention of States (duh)

CoS - Chief of Staff

COSF - Convention of States Foundation (parent organization of COSP)

COSP - Convention of States Project

COSU - Convention of States University

CTA - Call To Action

CSG - Citizens for Self-Governance (now Convention of States Foundation)

DD - District Dashboard

DM - Direct Message (as in Slack message to only one or a limited number of other people)

DMC - State Digital Media Coordinator (previous name for SCC)

DC - District Captain (a COS leadership role)

EC - Events Coordinator (a COS leadership role)

FUT - Followup Tool

GC - Grassroots Coordinator (same as SGC)

HD - House District

HJR - House Joint Resolution

LAPD - Leadership Applicant Processing Tool (No longer used - previous to the LMT tool)

LL - Legislative Liaison (a COS leadership role)

LMS - Legislative Management System

LMT - Leadership Management Tool (Has replaced the LAPD)

ML - Media Liaison (a COS leadership role)

NB - NationBuilder (previous core software system)

POC - Point of Contact (person assigned re Texas Cascade for legislator to contact)

PP - Point Person (term used in NB for the leader who can access a supporter's profile)

QRT - Quick Response Team

RC - Regional Captain (a COS leadership role)

RD - Regional Director (a COS leadership role)

SCC - State Communications Coordinator (a COS leadership role)

SCW - State Content Writer (a COS leadership role)

SD - State Director (a COS leadership role)

SD - Senate District

SGC - State Grassroots Coordinator (a COS leadership role)

SJR - Senate Joint Resolution

SIA - State Information Analyst (a COS leadership role)

SIAC - Regional SIA Captain (Regional SIA Leader)

SMW - Social Media Warrior

SV - State Videographer (a COS leadership role)

TLO - Texas Legislature Online

VCD - Veterans Coalitions Director (a COS leadership role)

VOL - Volunteer

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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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

The treatment is also clear.