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        "title": "Why health plan members should add routine eye care to their holiday checklists",
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        "summary": "While routine eye care sounds simple in nature, it can lead to major health discoveries.",
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        "title": "More vision problems are emerging in children following increased screen time",
        "byline": "Megan Collins and Mark Ruchman",
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        "summary": "Parents will need to pay greater attention to kids' vision problems in the coming years and will increasingly need to tap into vision insurance.",
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        "summary": "Here are just a few of the advances in eye health technology that will redefine how beneficiaries access eye care in 2021.",
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        "prettyDate": "July 02, 2019",
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