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Eye Doctor Trade Group Seeks Limit to Consumer Choices

Any time you have to purchase a product and you can only get it from a particular seller, you can expect to pay a high price for it. This was traditionally the way consumers purchased contact lenses. After an eye examination, and prescription for contact lenses, a consumer would have to get them from the […]

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Contact Lens Prescribers Push Legislation to Limit Consumer Choices

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 savings in price over that charged at the eye doctor’s office. Seeing a loss in revenue, industry groups representing eye doctors are supporting […]

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Reform of ECPA Balances Privacy With Law Enforcement Needs

As a result of change in technology, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has come in need of being modernized. Three federal legislators, Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Dean Heller (R-NV), also working with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as well as Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) […]

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Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Is Not In the Interest of Puerto Rico or U.S. Taxpayers

Congress will decide soon if Puerto Rico gets Chapter 9 bankruptcy[/caption] Puerto Rico has racked up more than $70 billion in public debt, and its governor announced it will default on a $420 million bond payment due today. The governor of Puerto Rico, as well as President Barack Obama and many Democrat politicians in Washington […]

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Politics and Economics

Sen. Bill Cassidy Introduces Bill Limiting Consumer Eye-care Choices

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s new bill will restrict choices of consumers in buying contact lenses[/caption] 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 Senator from Louisiana, who was […]