By Jack Inglewood - 2003 was a year of revolutionary change in the contact lens industry. Since the Republican-controlled Congress enacted the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumer Act, consumers have enjoyed the freedom to choose their...
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The War on Affordable Contact Lenses
When the brothers of Saint Joseph Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Covington, Louisana, began to sell their handmade wooden caskets in late 2007 to cover their own health care costs, the state’s Board of Embalmers and...
Inaccurate Health Claims Driving Push for Contact Lens Legislation
By Dr. Paul Donzis - Any good doctor will tell you that the key to helping their patients is having good information. The doctor needs to research a patient’s medical and family history, consider their symptoms,...
Contact Lens Prescription Bill Would Increase Optometrists’ Market Power
By Michael McGrady - Contact lens providers could be fined up to $40,000 per violation for filling prescriptions without first verifying them with prescribers by a modified verification process that could prolong patients’ wait times, if...
Here’s a Plank for the Conventions – No More Crony Capitalism
By Steve Sherman - I don’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican. Chances are that you’re frustrated. If you’re a Democrat, you might be lamenting Bernie climbing into bed with Hillary. If you’re...
Crush Crony Capitalism in a Senate Appropriations Bill
By Dan Horowitz - Since the dawn of the progressive era, the government has not ceased in passing occupational licensing laws — mandates requiring entrepreneurs first possess a government license allowing them to sell a good...
How the Fight for a Free Market is Facing ANOTHER Attack
This is a story about the power of who you know in Congress and Crony Capitalism at its worst. I’ve discussed contact lens issue before. It seems pretty simple to me. Millions of Americans wear contacts...
Commentary: Senator Bill Cassidy’s Contact Lens Cronyism
Contact lenses are already expensive, but Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) wants to drive up the cost to an even further degree. How? By creating a strangle hold in the online contact industry. This will send...
The Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act Explained
Without question, the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumer Act has lived up to its name. By requiring eye doctors to give patients their prescriptions so they can shop elsewhere for contacts, the 2003 law made the...
Senator’s Crony Amendment for Eye Doctors Will Have Patients Seeing Red
Nearly 40 million Americans use contact lenses. It is an estimated $4 billion market that was once held captive by opportunistic eye doctors. Thanks to legislation passed by Congress in 2003, consumers became free to receive...