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.

  • iamjackflack@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s crazy. Prob like $600 from any luxottica based eye place around here. Mine were always 300 plus

    • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      As mentioned above, they’re $700AUD from the local shop (specsavers), and for a $200 discount mum’s not interested in international internet ordered spectacles in case there’s any issue.