by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 14, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Hill on August 9, 2017. In its never-ending quest to corner the contact lens market, the American Optometric Association (AOA) has begun a new lobbying campaign to persuade the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to abandon its efforts to...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Dec 18, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Orange County Register on December 15, 2016. Contact lens wearers can breathe a sigh of relief as the lame-duck congressional session comes to an end. Despite their best efforts, lobbyists for the eye doctors have failed to...
by Brian Garst | Oct 31, 2016 | Blogs, Competition, Free Market
Halloween is typically scary mostly only for small children, but this year the millions of adults who wear contact lenses have reason to be frightened, particularly for their pocketbooks. That’s because an effort is under way to limit competition in the contact...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 30, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on FEE.org on October 29, 2016. This Halloween, scores of consumers have purchased nearly 100,000 pairs of “counterfeit, illegal, and unapproved” colored contacts for costumes, all of which have been seized by “Double Vision,” an...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 8, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on October 6, 2016. Contact lenses are big business. A $4 billion industry, in fact. That’s not much of a surprise when you consider that an estimated 40 million Americans wear contacts. Also not a surprise: the...
