Group Will Oppose Legislation That Would Reduce Choice, Increase Costs for 41 Million Contact Lens Wearers WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to ensure continued consumer choice in the contact lens market, several leading national retailers...
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Americans for Prosperity Letter Opposing Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act
Dear Senator Cassidy: On behalf of more than 2.8 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write in opposition to your legislation, S. 2777, the Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act of 2016....
Letter from Senators Lee and Klobuchar to Federal Trade Commission on Contact Lens Market
WASHINGTON—Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, sent a letter today to the Federal Trade Commission urging the...
Letter from NAOO to Congressional Leaders on the Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act
Dear Senators Thune, Nelson, Alexander and Murray: On behalf of the National Association of Optometrists and Opticians (NAOO), a national organization representing the retail optical industry and its thousands of employed and affiliated optometrists and opticians,...
This Republican Senator is ALL IN to Grow Government and Squash Consumers
What is the first thing you think of when you hear that the four largest contact lens manufacturers plus the American Optometric Association have created a coalition to influence Congress? Just another day in the life...
Congress and Crony Capitalists Want to Take Over the Contact Lens Market
The intensity with which some American companies try to use the government to trick or deceive consumers is astonishing. Yet the extent to which lawmakers seem content to cater to these crony pursuits never disappoints, either....
A Clear-Eyed View of the Contact Lens Debate
The intensity with which some American companies try to use the government to trick or deceive consumers is astonishing. Yet the extent to which lawmakers seem content to cater to these crony pursuits never disappoints, either....
National Taxpayers Union Blog: Myopic Government Schemes Threaten Eye Care Consumers… and Taxpayers
By Pete Sepp Contact lens wearers, read on while you still have easy access to your supplies. This post was first written earlier in the week with an entirely different intention – to point out how...
AOA Supports Contact Lens Prescription Verification, Patient Safety Bill
The American Optometric Association announced its support for the Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act of 2016, introduced by Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, (R-La.), to ensure more effective federal enforcement of contact lens patient health and...
Crony Capitalism is Rocking it in the Contact Lens Industry
As if it’s not bad enough that you drew the DNA short straw and can’t see without correction, now the government, the eye doctors, and the contact lens manufacturers are frolicking in bed together at your...