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....
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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 Video: “Headed to the Eye Doctor? Take a Look at This Video…”
"Before you head to the eye doctor, take 30 seconds to watch a new video from the FTC about your eyewear prescription rights. Federal law requires your eye doctor to give you your contact lens prescription after...
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...
Advocacy Groups’ Open Letter to Congress: Reject Special-Interest Protectionism, Preserve Choice and Competition for Contact Lens Consumers!
Dear Member of Congress: The undersigned organizations from across the ideological spectrum encourage you to uphold competition and choice in the contact lens marketplace, which is exemplified by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently updated final...
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...