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# The Act, HR 3590, originated in the [[United States Senate]] and not the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Yet it is clearly a revenue-raising bill, because it includes various tax and penalty provisions. This violates Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 1, which requires that "all bills for raising revenue...originate in the House of Representatives."<ref name=senatebill>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/when-a-house-bill-is-not-a-house-bill|title=When a House bill is not a House bill|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-06|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The Act, HR 3590, originated in the [[United States Senate]] and not the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Yet it is clearly a revenue-raising bill, because it includes various tax and penalty provisions. This violates Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 1, which requires that "all bills for raising revenue...originate in the House of Representatives."<ref name=senatebill>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/when-a-house-bill-is-not-a-house-bill|title=When a House bill is not a House bill|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-06|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The Act features a "minimum coverage mandate" that forces individuals, businesses, and other groups, on pain of various fines, to purchase health-care insurance with a mimimum level of coverage that in many cases far exceeds what these individuals, businesses, and groups are prepared to pay for. The government has no authority so to act, even under the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).<ref name=commerceclause>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-commerce-clause-hcr|title=The Commerce Clause in HCR|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-08|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The Act features a "minimum coverage mandate" that forces individuals, businesses, and other groups, on pain of various fines, to purchase health-care insurance with a mimimum level of coverage that in many cases far exceeds what these individuals, businesses, and groups are prepared to pay for. The government has no authority so to act, even under the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).<ref name=commerceclause>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-commerce-clause-hcr|title=The Commerce Clause in HCR|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-08|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The Act creates what would become an eighth uniformed service of the United States (in addition to the [[United States Army]], [[United States Navy|Navy]], [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]], [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]], [[United States Public Health Service Corps]] (the service that the [[Surgeon General of the United States]] commands), and the uniformed research service of the [[National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration]].<ref name=hcrarmy1>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-history-of-presidential-health-care-armies|title=The history of Presidential health care armies|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-13|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref> Because this new service would be an army (and in fact would be called the National Healthcare Army), it is not supposed to receive an appropriation for any period greater than two years (I.8.12). HR 3590 provides a four-year appropriation.<ref name=hcrarmy2>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-constitutionality-of-a-presidential-health-care-army|title=The constitutionality of a Presidential health care army|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-13|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The Act creates what would become an eighth uniformed service of the United States (in addition to the [[United States Army]], [[United States Navy|Navy]], [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]], [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]], [[United States Public Health Service Corps]] (the service that the [[Surgeon General of the United States]] commands), and the uniformed research service of the [[National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration]]).<ref name=hcrarmy1>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-history-of-presidential-health-care-armies|title=The history of Presidential health care armies|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-13|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref> Because this new service would be an army (and in fact would be called the National Healthcare Army), it is not supposed to receive an appropriation for any period greater than two years (I.8.12). HR 3590 provides a four-year appropriation.<ref name=hcrarmy2>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/the-constitutionality-of-a-presidential-health-care-army|title=The constitutionality of a Presidential health care army|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-13|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The "individual mandate" is a capitation tax, in violation of I.9.4.<ref name=captax>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/hcr-mandate-capitation-tax-or-bill-of-attainder|title=HCR mandate: capitation tax or bill of attainder?|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-16|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The "individual mandate" is a capitation tax, in violation of I.9.4.<ref name=captax>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/hcr-mandate-capitation-tax-or-bill-of-attainder|title=HCR mandate: capitation tax or bill of attainder?|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-16|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The taxes on various medical devices constitute taxes and duties on State exports, in violation of I.9.5.<ref name=stateexptax>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/hcr-medical-device-taxes-unconstitutional-say-nj-plaintiffs|title=HCR medical-device taxes unconstitutional, say NJ plaintiffs|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-16|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>

# The taxes on various medical devices constitute taxes and duties on State exports, in violation of I.9.5.<ref name=stateexptax>{{cite web|last=Hurlbut|first=Terry|authorlink=User:TerryH|url=http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/hcr-medical-device-taxes-unconstitutional-say-nj-plaintiffs|title=HCR medical-device taxes unconstitutional, say NJ plaintiffs|publisher=Essex County Conservative Examiner|date=2010-10-16|accessmonthday=January 9|accessyear=2011}}</ref>