[9YearLurker]

If it was, for Constitutional purposes a tax, then the bill needed to have originated in the House in order to be Constitutional.

My recollection is that it wasn’t.

[originalbuckeye]

IIRC, The Senate took a Bill that had originated in the House, took every word out of THAT Bill, and inserted the wording for Obamacare. In that manner, the Bill has a House designation even though ‘written’ completely by the Senate. ALSO, during oral arguments, Kagan kept saying ‘why are you calling it a tax? It isn’t a tax’. Total sleaze by the power crazy Democrats in the White House, the Congress and the SCOTUS. Roberts should have stayed the course on protecting the Constitution and the country........I do wonder what the Evil Ones have on him. He sold his soul and is still the Chief Justice.

[spokeshave]

If it was, for Constitutional purposes a tax, then the bill needed to have originated in the House in order to be Constitutional

Also,,,it doesn't have a severability clause......so any part found unconstitutional makes the whole thing void...

and what about the many changes to the bill that were pasted in by Obama without any voting process.