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Eyeball Wars: Optometry scope of practice bill clears final House panel, but future is uncertain - Florida Politics

The scope bill in VT, which passed UNANIMOUSLY out of the Senate Govt Ops committee, is being held up in the Health & Welfare committee AGAIN by the same chair as before, who OMDs have deeply in their pocket.

I've been replying factually to paid scare-tactic Facebook ads by the OMD lobby, as have other ODs, and our replies quickly vanish.
 
That is is disheartening.