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Glasses are already de facto over the counter. Virtually every online source of glasses (including large, domestic businesses) will openly sell glasses with requested specifications to anyone without asking for a copy of (or even affirmation of the existence of) any kind of official document.

While the word "prescription" is often still used when the specifications of the glasses are what is really meant, this situation is clearly a stark contrast to the prescription-as-approval practiced for medication. No legitimate domestic company will sell FDA-approved medication without asking for proof that the customer first paid a doctor for a signed document giving them permission to buy it. This step may still be prevalent for contact lenses, but in practice it's not applied to glasses.