Texas physician Steve F. Hotze and his business have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
According to the lawsuit, PPACA took form in the Senate, but all revenue-raising bills must come from the House of Representatives, which is mandated under the Origination Clause in Article 1, Section 7, of the U.S. Constitution. Therefore, the lawsuit deems PPACA as unconstitutional.
"Federal courts can avert the disastrous train wreck of Obamacare by simply applying the Origination Clause to invalidate it," said Andrew Schlafly, the attorney who filed the suit and general counsel to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
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