Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by outworlder on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:27PM (#18982507)

Is it, though?

My ophtalmologist wouldn't only perform measurements to see if my prescription had changed. She would do a proper eye checkup. Retina, pressure and a host of other things.

It wasn't expensive. Of course, it was also not in the US.

You are only there once a year at most, so it is an opportunity to catch things before they go wrong.

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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by cgy1 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:01PM (#18984572)

I have had the same experience in the US. An assistant rather than the ophtalmologist is the one that does the vision test (I guess it's called the refraction?). The assistant then dilutes my eyes and after that is when the ophtalmologist comes in to do the checkup for my eyes for issues.

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