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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by Someone1234 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:04PM (#33527100)
Your employer may offer pre-tax vision insurance, this vision insurance is run by Luxottica, and works exclusively at their retail locations and brands.

Sometimes employers will even pay part of the vision insurance premium, thus making it, so your choices are to leave that money on the table OR pay completely out of pocket post-tax dollars.

There are alternative ways to use pretax dollars on eyeware, but many people aren't familiar with them and they require some management.

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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by kmonsen on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:22AM (#33527772)
Doesn’t all fsa account cover glasses? Pretty easy to use that for pre tax dollars on eyeware. You can spend it wherever you want.
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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:08AM (#33528336)
Vision insurance will typically be subsidized by the employer around 50% or more, so it could still be more expensive to not use the vision insurance.
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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by bombcar on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:48AM (#33531527)
The crappy "vision insurance" we got "for free" was still more expensive out of pocket than a Walmart optometrist visit + 5 pairs from Zenni.

It's entirely a racket; would be like selling oil change insurance.

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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by LorenPechtel on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:26PM (#33554464)
Not all of us have FSAs. We're both self-employed, no FSA money.
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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by yencabulator on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:48AM (#33574137)
You know, the kind of health care self-employed people are more likely to have (high deductible) is more likely to qualify for HSA -- and an HSA is great because it's like a pre-tax extra IRA allowance if you don't use it for healthcare.
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