Make Healthy Vision a Top Health Care Priority: Co-Sponsor HR 1884 to Expand Access to Eye and Vision Care

The Centers for Disease Control expects the number of blind and visually-impaired Americans to double in just 20 years.  Although the annual economic cost of visual disorders and disabilities exceeds $68 billion, healthy vision experts cite a far greater human toll arising from lost opportunities in the classroom for children, lost productivity on the job and earnings for adults and increased risk of falls and early mortality for seniors.  Without steps to expand access to preventive eye and vision care for kids, working men and women and older Americans, treatable eye diseases and vision disorders will continue to inflict an enormous harm – needlessly – on our families and our nation.   

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