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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... percent of population with eye abnormality requiring treatment and percent not currently under care by age and family income , preliminary estimates from the 1971-72 Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ---- Page 1057 1058 1059 1060 ...
... percent of population with eye abnormality requiring treatment and percent not currently under care by age and family income , preliminary estimates from the 1971-72 Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ---- Page 1057 1058 1059 1060 ...
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... per- cent of the people , ages 25 to 45 use eyeglasses . However , 88 percent of those 45 and over have glasses , and for people 65 and over the fig- ure is 93 percent or higher . In view of the increasing age of the popu- lation , the ...
... per- cent of the people , ages 25 to 45 use eyeglasses . However , 88 percent of those 45 and over have glasses , and for people 65 and over the fig- ure is 93 percent or higher . In view of the increasing age of the popu- lation , the ...
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... percentage are partially finished , 50 percent totally finished with the prescription ground into them at the plant in the manufacturing process , and then the next is the group that are semifinished , what percentage is semifinished ...
... percentage are partially finished , 50 percent totally finished with the prescription ground into them at the plant in the manufacturing process , and then the next is the group that are semifinished , what percentage is semifinished ...
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... percent of those are com- pletely finished by the manufacturer . Senator NELSON . About 70 to 80 percent ? Ms. SMITH . Single vision as compared to bifocals or trifocals . Mr. GORDON . Did you say it was generally the optometrist who ...
... percent of those are com- pletely finished by the manufacturer . Senator NELSON . About 70 to 80 percent ? Ms. SMITH . Single vision as compared to bifocals or trifocals . Mr. GORDON . Did you say it was generally the optometrist who ...
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... percent less than you could in California . Mr. GORDON . How about costs ? Ms. SMITH . The dollar amount difference ? Mr. GORDON . Yes . Ms. SMITH . Well , there are wide variations in the price of eyeglasses . It is not just a problem ...
... percent less than you could in California . Mr. GORDON . How about costs ? Ms. SMITH . The dollar amount difference ? Mr. GORDON . Yes . Ms. SMITH . Well , there are wide variations in the price of eyeglasses . It is not just a problem ...
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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.