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The Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice sent letters urging Congress and the Senate to oppose any efforts to roll back the recently updated Federal Trade Commission Contact Lens Rule during the 117th Congress.
ReadSenate Bill 4613 is the American Optometric Association's latest attempt to undercut the Contact Lens Rule and its consumer protections. Introduced by Senator John Boozman (who is also an optometrist), this bill seeks to make it more difficult for contact lens wearers to buy lenses from the vendors of their choice, as permitted by the Contact Lens Rule.
ReadThe FTC issued its long-awaited Contact Lens Rule this past summer. The unanimous, bipartisan decision is a resounding win for taxpayers and consumers, protecing competition and allowing for consumer choice. Click the link to download the PDF infographic.
ReadThe coalition wrote to the United States House Appropriations Committee to protest any addition to the FY 2021 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that would delay the implementation of the critically important FTC Contact Lens Rule, slated to go into effect in a couple months.
ReadChuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach, a free-market 501(c)(4) grassroots advocacy organization, and a member of the Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice, "penned" this opinion piece. And he didn't even need to disinfect his pen!
ReadCR says: "This new requirement is a long-awaited linchpin of better ensuring that the Contact Lens Rule effectuates Congress’s intent: addressing the eye doctor’s conflict of interest, so that consumers who wear contact lenses are able to benefit from the savings and convenience that a competitive marketplace provides." Click READ to download the letter.
ReadThe Federal Trade Commission today announced the approval of a final rule amending the agency’s Contact Lens Rule, which facilitates shopping for contact lenses by requiring prescribers to automatically provide a copy of a patient’s prescription to the patient and to verify or provide prescriptions to third-party sellers.
ReadThe Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice wrote to the FTC on March 13, 2019, urging the FTC to issue the final revised Contact Lens Rule, clarifying, strengthening and enhancing the rights of contact lens wearing consumers.
ReadOn May 8, Consumer Action launched its Vision Action Center to help ensure that hundreds of millions of glasses and contact lens wearers in America know their consumer rights. Read the press release.
ReadThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a public workshop in Washington, DC, on March 7 to explore issues of competition in the contact lens marketplace, consumer access to contact lenses and prescriptions. Consumer Action’s Linda Sherry joined an afternoon panel on consumer choice and prescription release.
ReadWRITE NOW to tell Congress to protect contact lens consumer rights. Just fill out the action alert and you will be able to email a message to your elected officials.
ReadConsumer Action joined Americans for Vision Care Innovation in a letter to Washington State legislators in opposition to any state bans on "ocular telemedicine"—online vision tests that are useful for eyewear prescription renewals.
ReadConsumer Action joined the National Taxpayers Union in a letter to members of the Kentucky State Senate opposing legislation (HB 191) that would restrict the right of state residents to renew contact lens or glasses prescriptions online.
ReadOn March 7, the Federal Trade Commission held a public workshop in Washington, DC, to explore issues regarding competition in the contact lens marketplace, consumer access to contact lenses, prescription release and portability, and related subjects. Linda Sherry, director of national priorities at Consumer Action joined one of the day's panels, Prescription Release and Consumer Choice.
ReadAmericans for Vision Care Innovation is a growing bipartisan coalition of consumer groups, trade associations, technology companies, retailers, think tanks and groups advocating for rural Americans and other underserved populations. We have come together to help ensure that America’s glasses and contact lens wearers have access to a safe and effective vision care tool. Our goal is to encourage more states to adopt pro-consumer legislation that promotes access to online vision testing and to end bans on such services where they exist.
VisitThe Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice serves as a voice for 41 million American contact lens consumers by advocating for continued consumer choice in the contact lens market. The Coalition opposes legislative and regulatory proposals at the federal and state levels that would limit the ability of consumers to purchase contact lenses from the retailer of their choice, whether online, in stores or over-the-phone. The Coalition’s members include retailers, contact lens wearers, consumer groups, good government advocacy organizations, optometrists and other eye care professionals, and members of the public with diverse perspectives.
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