RATIONAL BASIS

Because Leib makes no allegation that he belongs to a suspect class or that the HCPTC's rules violate a fundamental right, his equal protection claim is subject only to rational basis review. The rational basis test asks (1) whether the government has the power or authority to regulate the particular area in question, and (2) whether there is a rational relationship between the government's objective and the means it has chosen to achieve it. Cash Inn of Bade, Inc. v. Metro. Bade County, 938 F.2d 1239, 1241 (11th Cir. 1991). This standard is easily met. As the Supreme Court has held, under rational basis review, a state "has no obligation to produce evidence to sustain the rationality of a statutory classification." Heller v. Boe by Doe, 509 U.S. 312, 320, 113 S.Ct. 2637, 125 L.Ed.2d 257 (1993). Rather, a statute is presumed constitutional, and the burden is on the one attacking the law to negate every conceivable basis that might support it, even if that basis has no foundation in the record. Id., Under rational basis review, a court must accept a legislature's generalizations even when there is an imperfect fit between means and ends.