By Kevin William - I have always been a big fan of Rep. Leonard Lance. In fact, just a couple of months ago, I wrote on this very website about his principled stand on Internet privacy. But it...
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Johnson and Johnson Fighting to Blind Congress to Contact Lens Market
By Steve Lonegan - Led by the American Optometric Association (AOA) and large companies like Johnson & Johnson, there is a major effort in Washington to use the levers of government to pad big corporations’ bottom line....
Healthcare Professionals Peddle Fake News for Personal Gain
By Eric Peters - Imagine that representatives of General Motors lobbied Congress and got a bill passed requiring people to buy GM-brand cars only. There would be riots, probably. So why no outrage over the lobbying...
My False Advertising Complaint vs. the Eye Doctor Lobbyists
By Chuck Muth - Dear Federal Trade Commission (hereinafter referred to as FTC). In reading your official website, I learned that… “When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or television,...
Lobbyists Hope Lawmakers Will See ‘Eye to Eye’ on Special Favors
By Jerry Rogers - Keep an eye on Washington this week as the American Optometric Association (AOA) – an advocacy group that spends nearly $2 million a year lobbying on the federal level alone – is flying thousands of its...
FTC needs to help promote competition in the contact lens marketplace
By Andrew I. Gavil - Today, almost 41 million Americans wear contact lenses, spending an estimated four billion dollars every year to do so. Yet, despite Congressional and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action more than a decade...
Corporate Hypocrisy on Center Stage in Campaign for Eye Care Regulations
By Dean Chambers - Major corporations are often perceived by many as supporters of free enterprise, but unfortunately, this frequently proves to not be the case. The sheer hypocrisy of Johnson & Johnson in asking legislatures...
Johnson and Johnson’s Bill to Squash Competition in the Contact Lens Market
By Brian McNicoll - After a round of Capitol Hill meetings on eye-care policy, Peter Menziuso, president of J&J Vision North America, said all the right things about how "helping people safeguard their eyesight is our...
Government Cronyism: Looking to Stop the Power of Technology and the Free Market
By Seton Motley - The big government cronyism racket – is absurd. It is a disjointed, discombobulated mess of ridiculous ideas and assertions – put forward in steadfast defiance of the fundamentals of the free...
Johnson & Johnson’s War on Affordable Healthcare
By Brian Garst - Last week, industry executives from Johnson & Johnson, including J&J Vision North America President Peter Menziuso, conducted meetings with legislators on Capitol Hill to “deliver a message to Congress about eye care,...