Title: Physicians for COS Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/physicians|physicians]] Login Required to view? No Created: 2017-11-29 15:17:08 Updated: 2019-01-04 05:48:44 Published: 2018-06-05 03:00:00 Converted: 2025-04-14T20:24:04.192567319 ---- As American patriots who fully appreciate and enjoy the blessings of liberty secured to us by our forefathers, including the right to practice our profession free from illegitimate, burdensome federal regulations, we unite behind the Convention of States Project, an effort to use the constitutional power of the states to impose limitations on the power and scope of our overreaching federal government.\\ \\ We seek to ensure that a convention to propose amendments, convened under the Convention of States Project application, will consider amendment proposals to accomplish the following purposes, thereby resolving these matters constitutionally and removing them from the purview of judicial opinion: * To carefully define Congress’ power to regulate commerce “among the several states,” which has been stretched far beyond its original meaning and is now interpreted to give Congress virtually unlimited power over private activity—including health care services and the practice of medicine—even within a single state. * To carefully define Congress’ power under the General Welfare Clause of Article I, Section 8, so as to reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that Congress may “tax” individuals for their failure to purchase certain types of health insurance. {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/home/app/webapp/current/public/content/files/215/Coburn.jpg?225x275|Tom Coburn}} //"If you would like to practice the medicine you were trained as a physician to practice, you should join Physicians for COS. Insurance companies, federal agencies, and the government need to be removed from the equation of doctors working to treat their patients' illnesses and promote their patients' health. Patients deserve a physician who can advocate for their health without having to wrangle with bureaucrats and red tape.COS can make that happen."// Dr. Tom Coburn, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma ===== Sign the Physicians for COS Pledge & COS Petition ===== > I pledge to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution in its entirety--including its grant of power to the people, through their state legislatures, to use Article V to protect our nation from an abusive, overreaching federal government—and I pledge to educate my friends, family members, and neighbors about the importance of using this constitutional tool to protect our liberty.\\ > \\ > **COS Petition:**\\ > \\ > Dear Legislator, Our federal government is on a dangerous course. I believe it's time for real solutions. Please support calling a Convention of States to place fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials. #|PETITION_FORM{petition_tag:;coalition_id:4}|#   | |[[https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/216383175310712323|REGISTER FOR\\ WEBINAR]]| |[[https://conventionofstates.com/files/a-constitutional-prescription-to-save-the-nation|DOWNLOAD\\ LITERATURE]]| |[[mailto:keith.carmichael@cosaction.com?subject=COS%20Physicians%20Coalition%20Leadership&body=Hello%20Keith,%20I'm%20interested%20in%20applying%20as%20a%20leader%20for%20the%20Physicians%20Coalition....|APPLY FOR\\ LEADERSHIP POSITION]]| |   ===== These Physicians Prescribe COS! =====