Some eye-care offices have a device called an accommodation rule that allows a technician to slide an eye chart back and forth to simulate different distances.
Fessler offers other examples of VSP's good deeds: VSP offers its eye-care services to its subscribers through 25, 000 private doctors, one-third of whom practice in medically underserved communities.
Novartis mentioned 16 major submissions in its pharmaceutical pipeline in 2010, along with its merger with eye-care company Alcon, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.
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They will still get premium benefits - including free dental and eye care - that most Canadians have to pay for.
And if not, oftentimes that actually distracts them and prevents them from learning, because both dental and eye care -- a lot of kids end up being distracted.
As governor of Massachusetts, he produced an eye-catching health-care reform that tries to use market mechanisms to solve the most pressing problem, lack of coverage for the uninsured.
One of them, in India, was Aravind Eye Care, a for-profit hospital that treats the poor for little or no charge, subsidizing the care with fees it charges well-off patients. (See a Forbes article on Aravind here.) Moraes Neto co-authored a documentary film, Setor Dois e Meio (The Second-and-a-half Sector) about the journey that will be released later this year.
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Akorn is another health-care company, in the ophthalmology, the eye care area, and they have just an amazing balance sheet, and great growth potential.
Allergan is a leading maker of eye care, skin care and aesthetic products, including best-selling pharmaceutical Botox.
Unfortunately, there may be less than meets the eye to both of these long-term care provisions.
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He added that The Gambia was taking advantage of "appropriate technology" - to help its blind - such as building and equipping of secondary eye care centres, and the local production of eye drops.
The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Waxman and the Blue Dogs agreed last week on creating an independent panel of health-care experts to review the Medicare reimbursement system with an eye toward cutting costs.
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And the insurance companies can then kind of package and pool providers of dental care or eye wear or what have you, and it's a one-stop shop for seniors.
Now that U.S. healthcare costs are approaching an eye-popping 25 percent of GDP and barely 30 percent of U.S. doctors work in primary care, it is time for us to pay attention.
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