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Dental care services and eye care goods have both seen prices rise 20 per cent since June 2022, and both are emblematic of a public-private split within the health-care industry, Longhurst said, with costs controlled on only one side.
"Prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses — most of that industry is all private for-profit, increasingly investor-driven, private equity is involved."
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