Legal experts or people with access to legal experts, are the Eyeglass Rule and the Contact Lens Rule even Constitutional? Just because the federal government SAYS it has jurisdiction certainly does not mean that it DOES have jurisdiction.
The Constitution gives the federal government very limited power, but it also has the "Elastic Clause" and the "Commerce Clause" to weasel in a nice chunk of tyranny. The Commerce Clause basically gives the federal government jurisdiction over just about anything which can be deemed to involve more than one state/cross state lines, no matter how contorted the logic can be at times.
So my question is this: The Constitution does not give Congress to pass laws regarding eye exams. Is the doctor-patient relationship interstate commerce? No. So why should we be under these rules in the first place? Forget that they are BAD LAWS.... are they even Constitutional?
We want to get these laws nerfed, or better yet REPEALED, but it really just takes a federal judge to get the whole mess voided on lack of jurisdiction, and VSP, 1800, etc. probably couldn't even send their armies of lawyers due to lack of standing.
Unless someone can convince me I am wrong (not just with "best guesses" or because "it is what it is"), I think we should all bombard our associations and give this idea some life. We need to tell some people where a good place to store their PD ruler is.
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