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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... 25 percent is semifinished . Senator NELSON . And the other 25 percent would be blank , and then ground to the prescription itself , is that it ? Ms. SMITH . Right . When you talk about single vision lenses , as compared 5.
... 25 percent is semifinished . Senator NELSON . And the other 25 percent would be blank , and then ground to the prescription itself , is that it ? Ms. SMITH . Right . When you talk about single vision lenses , as compared 5.
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... single vision lenses , as compared to bifocals or trifocals , something close to 70 or 80 percent of those are com- pletely finished by the manufacturer . Senator NELSON . About 70 to 80 percent ? Ms. SMITH . Single vision as compared ...
... single vision lenses , as compared to bifocals or trifocals , something close to 70 or 80 percent of those are com- pletely finished by the manufacturer . Senator NELSON . About 70 to 80 percent ? Ms. SMITH . Single vision as compared ...
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... single - vision lenses and case would have a contract supply cost of $ 3.15 . In other words , the components to put those glasses together cost us $ 3.15 . For similar glasses with bifocal lenses it costs us $ 3.92 . If we go to single - ...
... single - vision lenses and case would have a contract supply cost of $ 3.15 . In other words , the components to put those glasses together cost us $ 3.15 . For similar glasses with bifocal lenses it costs us $ 3.92 . If we go to single - ...
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... single - vision and 5 multivision . optical laboratories to provide for the timely response needed to support worldwide operations , and to provide- Senator CULVER . Dr. Smith , you have 3 more minutes to go . Dr. SMITH . All right ...
... single - vision and 5 multivision . optical laboratories to provide for the timely response needed to support worldwide operations , and to provide- Senator CULVER . Dr. Smith , you have 3 more minutes to go . Dr. SMITH . All right ...
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... single - vision glasses includes both plastic frames and metal frames . Could you break those figures down for us for each type of frame ? For example , supply costs and labor ; do you have that for us ? Dr. SMITH . Yes , sir . Senator ...
... single - vision glasses includes both plastic frames and metal frames . Could you break those figures down for us for each type of frame ? For example , supply costs and labor ; do you have that for us ? Dr. SMITH . Yes , sir . Senator ...
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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.