You've heard of Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Oil. Now get ready to add Big Contacts to the list. A group of retailers including Lens.com, 1-800 Contacts and wholesaler Costco joined forces last week to...
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Coalition Applauds Senators Lee, Klobuchar for Fighting for Consumers’ Right to Purchase Contact Lenses from their Retailer of Choice
Senators Urge FTC to “Maintain Vigilance Over Competition” in Contact Lens Market Amid Reports of Optometrists Failing to Provide or Verify Prescriptions WASHINGTON, D.C. – As optometrists continue to push legislation in the U.S. Congress that...
Coalition Forms Opposing Senate Contact Lens Legislation; Senators Lee, Klobuchar Press FTC
In a letter sent Monday to the Federal Trade Commission, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. — the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights...
Sen. Bill Cassidy Introduces Bill Limiting Consumer Eye-Care Choices
All too often we’ve seen Washington D.C. politicians write statist legislation to tell us how to live our lives because they think they know better than we do. Such is the case with the first-term Republican...
Contact Lens Retailers and Optometrists Battle Over Prescription Rules
The seemingly simple process of ordering contact lenses has become a tangled debate between retailers, optometric groups, and lawmakers. At the core of the debate is the contact lens prescription, a ticket to 20/20 vision for...
The Latino Coalition Opposes Proposed Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act of 2016
S.2777 will produce higher prices and more hurdles for Hispanic market WASHINGTON, DC- The Latino Coalition (TLC), a national advocacy organization representing Hispanic businesses and consumers, raised concerns today about the Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection...
New Coalition Launched to Advocate for Contact Lens Consumers
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...
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,...