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...
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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...
National Taxpayers Union: Short Sighted Contact Lens Legislation Will Short-Change Taxpayers, Citizen Group Warns
Senate legislation that claims to protect the health of contact-lens users could actually hurt those very same consumers and boost the price tag of government health insurance programs. That’s the warning from National Taxpayers Union (NTU),...
Costco Wholesale: Costco Wholesale Opposes New Bill on Contact Lenses
Costco Wholesale Corp. announced its opposition to a bill introduced by U.S. Senator John Cassidy (R-LA) that would increase costs for many Americans who wear contact lenses. The bill would make it more difficult for consumers...
Cassidy Bill Could Limit Consumer Rights in Eye Care
Consumers could have their eye care choices limited, if a bill introduced last night by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) becomes law. The medical doctor turned politician, Cassidy, is likely to introduce a bill, at the behest...
Lens.com: Legislation Introduced this Week Will Undermine a Decade of Consumer Protections for Over 40 Million Contact Lens Wearers
Lens.com strongly opposes Cassidy-Boozman bill to deprive consumers of choice, reduce marketplace competition, and increase prices for lens users -- Las Vegas, Nevada (April 12, 2016) – Lens.com, a leading retailer that has supplied millions of...
1-800 Contacts: 1-800 Contacts Opposes Legislation Introduced Today That Would Gut “Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act”
Anti-Consumer Legislation Would Increase Costs for 41 Million Contact Lens Consumers Draper, Utah – Legislation being pushed by the American Optometric Association (AOA) and introduced today in the U.S. Senate would rewrite current law to undermine...
FTC Issues Warning Letters Regarding Agency’s Contact Lens Rule
Prescribers Must Provide Patients with Their Prescriptions; Sellers Must Obtain or Verify Valid Prescriptions before Dispensing Lenses Federal Trade Commission staff has sent 45 letters to contact lens prescribers and 10 to contact lens sellers warning...
1-800 Contacts: 27,725 Violations Reveal Pattern of Improper Behavior as Many Optometrists Put Profits Ahead of Patient Choice
In an effort to advocate for American consumers, 1-800 Contacts today notified the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of nearly 28,000 violations by optometrists and other eye care providers of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act...