Ah, but his kids would be exempt!
Posted on 09/23/2011 12:34:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns 3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts
Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a while back that when consumers are forced to deal with environmentally friendly products they're are almost always worse:
These people are evil, pure, unadulterated evil...............
Yeah, but we’re going to go make jobs, jobs, jobs, right?
Not the inhalators!!!
Crony Capitalism at work. This guy is an idiot.
Ok, I am out of town, forgot my inhalator, having a mild attack but have to find a doctor who does not know me or my history to get a scrip for an expensive inhalator rather than getting one at the drug store.
These people in the obama admin and crazy.
The bartender says: "What can I get you Mr. President?"
I dunno, seems appropriate. Everything else is clearly going to Hell. Happy Friday!
Obama to asthma patients; drop dead.
Here are the regs:
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/exemptions/inhalers.html
Must protect the environment from all those who may be able to breath if their Asthma is brought under control. Obama...deciding who can breath and who cannot.
I would imagine we will begin hearing about the uptick in emergency room visits for folks who would have otherwise just gone to Walgreens and purchased a 20 Primatene.
And they cant imagine why healthcare costs keep going up.
The SOB wouldn’t allow this if his kids needed these inhalators.
I despise these people. They are foul beyond imagination.
This article is a joke, right? The Weekly standard, is that like World weekly news and all that with Bat boy?
But, but, but
Poll: Majority of Americans say Obama’s presidency either about the same or worse than Bush’s.
About the same?
Good luck on breathing, people.
When they take over the ‘drug making’ we’ll really have problems.
Do you know who’s going to be hardest hit? Women and minorities:
In 2009, about 2,380,000 African Americans reported that they currently have asthma.
African American women were 30% more likely to have asthma than non-Hispanic White women, from 2001-2003.
In 2007, African Americans were three times more likely to die from asthma related causes than the White population.
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=6170
Obama is an ignoramus, but even ignoramuses can pick sound advisers. This guy has ignoramuses for advisers too, and those ignoramus advisers consult with other ignoramuses who haven’t ever held a job in the private sector, and don’t have clue one to real world existence.
They live in a dream world, dreaming dreams embedded in dreams embedded in nightmares (for us).
Not exempting them would imply that they are not omniscient.
Ah, but his kids would be exempt!
When you’re in the fetal position and turning blue, just think of the polar bears and dune sagebrush lizard you’re saving.
Well if some of them are Democrats and voted for Barry maybe now they’ll wake up although they’ll probably pass out first.
Yep. I have mild asthma and only occasionally have an attack. The docs don’t give me a scrip because the attacks are so infrequent, that they just say buy this OTC.
This reg is disgusting.
Not a day goes by that this bunch doesn’t do something to make me want to pull my hair and scream.
This is insane. Bammy and Co. banning “breathalyzers”
I think his kids use breathalyzers.
I despise these people. They are foul beyond imagination.
Obama hates black people.
The genocide has begun!
I have asthma that has been brought completely under control by using Pulmicort. I haven’t needed my rescue inhaler in more than 3 years but my doctor still prescribes albuterol just in case. With health insurance it runs me about $18 per canister.
Words fail me.
I was ready to ask John Semmens why he was posting satire under Breaking News!
But there's also this:
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
A look at any money trails sourced from the maker of albutrol might be revealing.
Oh hell yes he would. He is the elite ruler and his family and friends would be excepted. FUBO & FAD
its called elitism.
My asthma at one time was completely under control, thanks to Serevent Inhaler. Then they took the inhaled version off the market (to save the ozone layer) and replaced it with a dry powder piece of crap that you literally have to suck into your lungs. It's only about half as effective as the inhaled version. I now rely much more frequently on my albuterol inhaler, but even that has been rendered less effective by the elimination of CFCs as a propellent.
You know, I click on these headlines, and I think, this will be one of these “semi-satire” deals. Nope, it’s real.
But what about the asthma breathalyzers!! Are they still legal???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpWonUzlrc
I don’t understand. These are INHALERS and you INHALE the CFCs along with the medication, right? So, how does that affect the damn Obozo...er, Ozone layer?
CFC Albuterol has been generic for years. These new inhalers are still under patent, though. Also, this goes back to the Bush years, believe it or not.
Good catch!
Asthma here, too, now I guess I’ll have to be like some illegal and go to the ER.
bump
This insanity must end! (All based on a giant HOAX and FRAUD.)
“Poll: Majority of Americans say Obama’s presidency either about the same or worse than Bush’s.”
And some here say that unless their candidate of choice gets nominated it would be better for Obama to keep raping America for another 4 years.
Look what they did to colchicine - Before Obama it was a 10 cent pill. Now it's >$5. It was a 100 year old drug from a plant that is a miracle for millions of gout sufferers.
For me and many others it will ward off a painful gout attack. Usually takes about three pills spaced a few hours apart at the first sign of an attack.
Six Whiskey Tango
Citizens...you will do what we say! We know where your family lives.
Maybe he meAns breathalyzers like HR said before
Unfortunately, this type of stupidity is nothing new. During the Clinton administration, the allergy nose spray I used was banned in the US. My allergist got a good laugh over the fact that the drug was still being manufactured, but it was now only possible to get it in developing nations. All the replacements gave me nose bleeds and I ended up, at the age of 10, needing to take steroids to clear up the sinus infection that resulted. I missed weeks of school and seriously doubt the ozone is any better for it. It would be nice if at some point the administration prioritized the health of its citizens over a useless international agreement, but that’s never going to happen under this administration.
Now wait a minute. They are running an ad with the lung association saying don’t cut funding for clean air.(specifically ashma) But they want to make inhalers illegal.
The inmates are now officially in charge of the asylum.
END THE EPA NOW!
Great.... not only am I hoarding light bulbs, now I have to make room for OTC inhalers!
LOL! I had forgotten that. That’s why Obama is going after them.
Actually, I didn’t know that there were inhalers that only contained epinephrine.
Adavair seems to be the new drug of choice for asthma sufferers, maybe the makers of Adavair made a deal with someone in the Obama administration.
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