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:
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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.
WTF?
Next will be swimming pools and hot tubs. Chlorine and bromine are also on the list.
[Morgan has an asthma attack]
Graham Hess: We don't have his medicine. Don't be afraid, Morgan. We'll slow this down together. Feel my chest. Feel it moving in and out. Breathe like me. Breathe like me. Come on.
Bo: I dreamed this.
Graham Hess: Stay with me. I know it hurts. Be strong baby. It'll pass. It'll pass.
Don’t worry, Mexican drug lords will soon be exporting these to the US.
I guess they’ll stop putting it in drinking water and take away our Clorox, too......................so we’ll all be dirty, drink dirty water and wear dirty clothes............and they say Republicans are for dirty air and dirty water......................
Americans forgot what happens when you put the left in power. It’s about time they got a reminder. The more people they reach out and touch (smash), the bigger the insurance policy that they will be sidelined - hopefully for the rest of my life.
It fits the lefty’s premise: anyone who is breathing, especially right-wingers, are destroying the environment.
Now if the pro-regressives can figure out how to get only the right-wingers to stop breathing the planet may be saved from destruction.
No he can't. He can't pick anyone smarter than him. That's why when you look at his lieutenants, like Napolitano or Geithner, you can see in their eyes that there's not that much going on in there. These are people long past the peter principle stage where they should have been s-canned.
Oh, be assured, they intend to exterminate anyone that is “polluted” by a capitalist mindset.
This is one over the counter non prescription inhaler that is used by people with asthma that is minor. It is called Primatene Mist he only over-the-counter asthma inhaler sold in the United States will no longer be available next year as part of a phase-out of epinephrine inhalers containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). This is so the drug companies get their Obama health care pay off. You will now have to get a doctors prescription!!!
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