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West Virginia Senate Takes Steps to Rein in the Out-of-Control Federal Government

As a Convention of States (COS) supporter, you know that the corrupt and broken federal government will not fix itself. It is going to take the people, working through their state legislators to act.

The COS resolution allows the states to gather to propose Constitutional amendments that will end self-serving career D.C. politicians, restore fiscal sanity in D.C., and rein in the federal behemoth.

The great news is the West Virginia Senate is acting. They have filed the COS resolution (SCR 5) and they have passed a great companion bill to the COS resolution SB 332.

SB 332 lays out the procedures for WV delegates sent to an Article V convention and most importantly the penalties for delegates that exceed their authority. Why is this important? Fearmongers, who like the status quo, often claim delegates will exceed their authority and the convention will "run away."

SB 332 puts these bogus claims to rest.

Any delegate that does exceed his/her authority at the convention is subject to immediate recall, $100,000 to $500,000 fine, and up to 10 yrs in prison. Additionally, the delegate's vote is void.

Now it is time to ensure that the COS resolution SCR 5 passes!

This is were YOU come in. Your state senator is on the Senate Judiciary Committee and we need you to call and email him/her. It is important that your senator hears from their constituents to thank him/her for passing SB 332 and to encourage him/her to make passing SCR 5 a priority.

Here are simple guidelines when reaching out to your senator:

  • Always be professional and courteous
  • It is important to identify yourself as a constituent
  • If sending an email be sure to say your a constituent and that you support yourself in the subject line
  • Thank him/her for passing SB 332
  • Express why you believe passing the COS resolution is so urgent (term-limits, federal debt, bloated over-reaching government)

 

 

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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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