A group of conservative activist doctors, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), has filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning the new healthcare reform law, and they are the first national physician group to do so.

The AAPS filed the lawsuit in the U. S. Court for the District of Columbia against Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Michael Astrue, commissioner of the Social Security Administration. The AAPS has about 2,300 physician members and is vehemently opposed to the new law.

Jane Orient, MD, executive director of AAPS said, "If the PPACA, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it. Courts should not allow this massive intrusion into the practice of medicine and the rights of patients."

According to the new healthcare reform law if you do not have a health insurance by 2014 then you would face penalties.

The lawsuit filed by the AAPS claims fifth amendment protection was violated by the law along with the 10th Amendment, the commerce clause of Article I.

A similar suit on March 23 in federal court in Newark, N. J, was filed by New Jersey doctors.