Poor vision often goes uncorrected
About one in 15 Americans has eyesight so poor they couldn’t pass a driver’s license vision test but most of them go without correcting the problem.
The situation is most severe among blacks, Latinos, the poor and those without insurance, said the government report published in the May 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
The authors concluded that 14 million people older than 12 were visually impaired. Of those, 11 million could achieve 20/40 vision or better with glasses or contact lenses but did not have them.
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