With Medicare shaping up as a key election issue, we examine optometry and how your optometrist is incentivised to put glasses on your nose.

Have you ever walked into an outlet like OPSM, Specsavers, Bailey Nelson, or Laubman & Pank for an eye test and left feeling like you’d been gently pressured into spending $500 on a pair of glasses?

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[B]osses impose onto optometrists a variety of targets – whether its “converting” eye tests into sales or increasing rates of certain types of tests.

This type of pressure is reportedly causing many optometrists “significant moral distress” and some are starting to fight back.

  • Quokka@mastodon.au
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    3 days ago

    @quoll reminds me I’ve got an eye test soon. Pretty sure I’m more blind than last year. So that’s another $500-odd I’ll have to find

    • quoll@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      wait for a jetstar sale, fly to japan, save some coin :D

      … legit flying to bali or thailand could probs make the $$$ add up.