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What part of the Constitution covers medical billing? Doctors can get tort protection but patients can't get billing protection? Wages have been set by the U.S. government before so I'm not sure you could argue that, and there's no personal expression protection with accepting insurance. I'm really unsure of where this could possibly become Constitutional other than the right to life.

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Perhaps it’s the ambiguity when I read the parents post about not allowing doctors to charge different rates. Does that mean not allowing me to charge more than you, or not allowing a doctor to charge one patient more than the former.

When I originally read it, it seemed like the former, but given everyone’s responses it must be the latter.

I'm for capping costs AND not allowing a provider to charge different rates to different patients for clarity.

Neither would violate the constitution. It's not that long a document and written reasonably clearly. If you disagree please cite the section.

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