By Brian McNicoll - Before long, perhaps, you will be able to give yourself an eye exam using your phone and even use the results of your exam to order your own glasses or contact lenses....
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Break Up the Contact Lens Cartel to Give Consumers More Choice
By Robert Atkinson - Business leaders often say they welcome competition. But the truth is, they welcome the threat of competition to keep them on their toes. The last thing any business leader really wants to contend...
Group Says 135,000 People Sign Contact Lens Consumer Rights Petition
The latest round in the industry battle over contact lens legislation is bringing in more of the consumer perspective. The Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice reported Tuesday that it now has collected the names of...
Fake Concern From Contact Lens Giants Could Cost Consumers
By Andrew F. Quinlan - Contact lenses are big business. A $4 billion industry, in fact. That’s not much of a surprise when you consider that an estimated 40 million Americans wear contacts. Also not a...
135,000 People Sign Contact Lens Consumer Rights Petition
Group Urges Congress to Reject Legislation That Would Reduce Choice, Increase Costs for Contact Lens Wearers WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice announced this week that more than 135,000 individuals have now...
Contact Lens Prescribers Push Legislation to Limit Consumer Choices
By Dean Chambers - While some consumers purchase contact lenses from their eye doctor that prescribes them, many will also choose to obtain their lenses from other vendors that will fill their prescriptions, often for considerable...
Industry-supported Contact Lens Regulations Will Restrict Consumer Choice
By Dean Chambers - If our eye doctors and their cronies in the contact lens industry get their way, consumers are likely to pay more for contact lenses because of having few if any choices of...
Proposed Changes to Contact Lens Competition Undermine the Free Market
By Alexander Hendrie - It is a basic principle of free markets that consumers are able to make decisions without government control over prices and purchasing choices. From time to time, moneyed special interests try to...
Can You Trust Your Eye Doctor?
By Steve Sherman - Trust is the bedrock of the medical profession. If we can’t trust the men and women in the white coats, then they have no power to help us. Our trust gives them...
Eye Doctor Industry Seeks to Limit Customer Choice on Contact Lens Purchases
By Dean Chambers - Years ago when consumers had their eyes examined by an eye doctor, if they had chose to get contact lenses they pretty much had to have that prescription filled by their eye...