Rhode Island
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Dear Chair McNamara, Second Vice Chair Phillips and the Distinguished Members of the House Health, Education and Welfare Committee, It is once again with deep disappointment that Americans for Vision Care Innovation, a bipartisan coalition of consumer and taxpayer groups,...
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Dear Speaker Mattiello, Majority Leader Shekarchi, Minority Leader Filippi, Chair Jacquard, First Chair Johnson, Jr, and Second Vice Chair Morning, It is deeply troubling that once again the rights of Rhode Islanders who wear contact lenses and glasses are...
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By Saya Nagori – The General Assembly is again considering protectionist legislation that would restrict emerging telehealth technology for Rhode Island’s contact lens and glasses wearers. House Bill 7608 and its companion Senate Bill 2404 take aim at vision telemedicine...
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By Rob Borkowski – Local optometrists are arguing for “standard of care” regulation of online vision tests for corrective lens prescription renewals, rules branded protectionist by manufacturers, pitting eye doctors’ efforts to preserve patient interaction against software services providing convenient,...