Restrictive and Anticompetitive Practices in the Eyeglass Industry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... |
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... correct . I am talking about advertising which is fair , honest , truthful , and provides information that consumers want and need . The Commission's activities in connection with prescription glasses are an essential part of a general ...
... correct . I am talking about advertising which is fair , honest , truthful , and provides information that consumers want and need . The Commission's activities in connection with prescription glasses are an essential part of a general ...
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... correct . Senator NELSON . When you say it was widespread , do you have any statistics ? I have had glasses for 25 or 30 years , I have already received a pre- scription and was billed for it later , and I have been examined by many ...
... correct . Senator NELSON . When you say it was widespread , do you have any statistics ? I have had glasses for 25 or 30 years , I have already received a pre- scription and was billed for it later , and I have been examined by many ...
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... the lens . Is that correct ? Ms. SMITH . They sometimes do , when you have a blank which is other side at their retail establishment if they have machines finished on one side , and not on the other side , they may grind the 14.
... the lens . Is that correct ? Ms. SMITH . They sometimes do , when you have a blank which is other side at their retail establishment if they have machines finished on one side , and not on the other side , they may grind the 14.
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... correct vision ; how- ever , they cannot treat any eye diseases . If they find that there are disease problems within an eye , they must refer it to an ophthalmologist for treatment . Optometrists can also fill the prescription for ...
... correct vision ; how- ever , they cannot treat any eye diseases . If they find that there are disease problems within an eye , they must refer it to an ophthalmologist for treatment . Optometrists can also fill the prescription for ...
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... correct ? Ms. SMITH . Ophthalmologists for the most part do not fill their own prescriptions , so they give you a prescription and expect you to go to an optician , or optometrist to have it filled . The hearing record also contains ...
... correct ? Ms. SMITH . Ophthalmologists for the most part do not fill their own prescriptions , so they give you a prescription and expect you to go to an optician , or optometrist to have it filled . The hearing record also contains ...
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advertising of ophthalmic agencies AHART American Optical American Optometric Association Asst Bausch & Lomb Benham BERKOWITZ bidder bifocal Board BRANCH SERVICE charge commercial committee competition consumer contact lenses contract contractor correct cost Dart Drug dispensing doctor drugs economic effect estimated eye examination eyeglass prescriptions eyewear factors Federal Trade Commission firms FTC staff GORDON groups hearings indicated individual laboratory laws lens licensing manufacturers MARKOE Maryland materials medicaid medicaid program obtaining eyeglasses ophthalmologists opticians Optometric Association optometrists optometry pair of glasses patient percent practice prescription price advertising price of eyeglasses problem procurement profession professional control purchase question refractive regulations regulatory retail Senator CULVER Senator NELSON single vision SMITH SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE specific standards statement STERNBURG supply Temples TILLYER tion trifocal Virginia visual Washington wholesale
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Page 159 - Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association.
Page 364 - ... use of any advertising statements of a character tending to deceive or mislead the public ; advertising professional superiority or the performance of professional services in a superior manner...
Page 339 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Page 594 - ... all taints of commercialism. It certainly might be easy for an optometrist with space in a retail store to be merely a front for the retail establishment. In any case, the opportunity for that nexus may be too great for safety, if the eye doctor is allowed inside the retail store. Moreover, it may be deemed important to effective regulation that the eye doctor be restricted to geographical locations that reduce the temptations of commercialism. Geographical location may be an important consideration...
Page 339 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Page 477 - Foundation, this assurance shall obligate the Applicant, or in the case of any transfer of such property, any transferee, for the period during which the real property or structure is used for a purpose for which the Federal financial assistance...
Page 272 - Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it sometimes may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information as to who is producing and selling what product, for what reason, and at what price.
Page 568 - The community Is concerned with the maintenance of professional standards which will Insure not only competency In Individual practitioners, but protection against those who would prey upon a public peculiarly susceptible to Imposition through alluring promises of physical relief. And the community Is concerned In providing safeguards not only against deception, but against practices which would tend to demoralize the profession by forcing Its members Into an unseemly rivalry which would enlarge...
Page 347 - ... or dividing a fee with any person or persons; the obtaining of any fee or compensation by fraud or misrepresentation; employing...
Page 496 - Applicant, or in the case of any transfer of such property, any transferee, for the period during which the real property or structure is used for a purpose for which the Federal financial assistance is extended or for another purpose involving the provision of similar services or benefits.