The other shoe has dropped!
THE OTHER SHOE HAS DROPPED!
JLARC (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission) has recommended that OPTICIANS in VIRGINIA be DEREGULATED.
This is NO JOKE. This is the REAL DEAL.
If you are a LICENSED OPTICIAN IN VIRGINIA AND NOT A MEMBER OF OAV, WE NEED YOU NOW AND YOU NEED US TO WORK TO SAVE OUR LICENSES.
Join us at www.vaopticians.org TODAY! The legislation will come before the General Assembly in JANUARY.
...........................has recommended that OPTICIANS in VIRGINIA be DEREGULATED.
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Originally Posted by
Judy Canty
JLARC (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission) has recommended that OPTICIANS in VIRGINIA be DEREGULATED.
This is NO JOKE. This is the REAL DEAL.
Join us at www.vaopticians.org TODAY! The legislation will come before the General Assembly in JANUARY.
.................well, well, well.
The forces behind the scene for a deregulated optical retail market in eyeglasses in Virginia have worked successfully to get it before the General Assembly for a vote to deregulate opticians in Virginia.
This could mean that they have enough members to vote yes to deregulate the optical retail sales in Virginia.
Another advance by the forces that promote a uncontrolled market.
11 occupations regulated by DPOR that do not appear to meet the criteria.............
There are 11 occupations regulated by DPOR that do not appear to meet the criteria for regulation that are established in the Code of Virginia. These occupations include community managers, opticians, residential energy analysts, soil scientists, waste management facility operators, landscape architects, naturalgas automobile mechanics, and others. State statute clearly indicates that the state should not restrict access to any occupation unless it is “necessary for the protection or preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the public” (§ 54.1-100). These occupations do not meet the criteria, and regulation of these occupations could be reduced or eliminated through legislation.
see all of it:
http://jlarc.virginia.gov/pdfs/reports/Rpt509.pdf
It has happened already ............................
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Originally Posted by
Judy Canty
Please visit our website www.vaopticians.org and be ready to contact your respective legislators in the coming weeks.
It has happened already in the of the most populated Canadian Provinces, and passed very easily.
British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. the most populated Provinces, have been deregulated, while Ontario is still under appeal.
corporate lobbyists spreading cash around to the right people .......................
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Originally Posted by
Uncle Fester
Who rules each branch in Virginia? Would a change November 6 create a more favorable legislature to keep licensing or are they, like Massachusetts, susceptible to "campaign contributors" aka corporate lobbyists spreading cash around to the right people?
................that probably is the right answer.
My error, I was wrong this time see correction.....................
https://www.optiboard.com/forums/ima.../blob_blue.gif I practice in Ontario and the province has NOT been deregulated......................
https://www.optiboard.com/forums/ima...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Golfnorth https://www.optiboard.com/forums/ima...post-right.png
I practice in Ontario and the province has NOT been deregulated.
Mt error and You are correct...............and I was wrong that this was about deregulation, post instead that it had to do with the court case against Coastal/Clearly which they lost and appealed.
TORONTO, ONTARIO ( Marketwired - December 14, 2016)
- In a move to protect Ontario patients, the College of Opticians of Ontario and the College of Optometrists of Ontario have turned to the courts, seeking an injunction that would prohibit Clearly, owned by Essilor Group of Canada Inc. from dispensing prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses online to the Ontario public, without following Ontario legislatio
You will find people like that all over the world..............................
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Originally Posted by
lensmanmd
So, tell me, is a license worth the paper it is printed on when a licensed optician requests a polarized plano in 1.67 because "that is what the patient requested"? AND, the lenses being replaced were for a brand new pair of off the shelf Marchon polarized suns. ...........................
But, he has a VA license in good standing..................
Sometimes, I just wonder out loud.......
You will find people like that all over the world. So it does not mean that the profession in general is that bad.
However, opticians have for the last few centuries enjoyed a higher than usual gross profit because in the olden days there was a lot more breakage, due to the reason that lenses were only available in mineral glass.
It was mainly hand crafted work. Also the machinery to work glass lenses was very primitive until the 1950s when the first modern automatic edger was introduced by American Optical, but still had only a ceramic wheel.
This has all changed with all the modern equipment that is available these days. Breakage and redos are mainly due to or by human error these days.
However the pricing of this new type automatic machinery is in a higher echelon, so that many small retail opticians have stopped to do the work in their store and order the glasses finished at a wholesale lab and pay the higher price for it.
The retail store will charge their customers still the age old markup multiplier as if they had done the practical work themselves, which results in the highest possibel pricing.
....................then better get used to it
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Originally Posted by
drk
No, they spread the money around evenly. They aren't stupid.4
Deregulation is a slap in the face of eye care. Period.
Big business wormed its way into eye care over the past 40 years and now they are big enough (and our legislators are corrupt enough) to buy themselves the unhindered right to commercialize eye care.
....................then better get used to it and adjust your own business to the new old way, to compete and stay commercially alive and afloat.
Sears and their K-Mart, did not, and are going to their own funeral.
K-Mart isn't health care....................................
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Originally Posted by
drk
K-Mart isn't health care.
YES IT IS NOT...................however it belongs to Sears who went bankrupt over the last weekend, so it is a goner too.