Posted on 09/23/2011 9:28:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration 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 use environmentally friendly products they are almost always worse:
Er, industry also knew how to make low-flow toilets, which is why every toilet in my recently renovated rental house clogs at least once a week. They knew how to make more energy efficient dryers, which is why even on high, I have to run every load through the dryer in said house twice. And they knew how to make inexpensive compact flourescent bulbs, which is why my head hurts from the glare emitting from my bedroom lamp. They also knew how to make asthma inhalers without CFCs, which is why I am hoarding old albuterol inhalers that, unlike the new ones, a) significantly improve my breathing and b) do not make me gag. Etc.
Well, tough cookies asthma sufferers! You should have written bigger checks to the Democratic party while you had the chance.
Nuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2782829/posts
Already posted, and in the Breaking News thingy, fyi. Includes one of my typically-crabby comments. :)
Asthmatics are a burden to the system and should be encouraged die sooner. That way, the rest of us will save on health care costs.
Ban those damned Breathalyzers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOQA8S3i4g
It's only money, peasants. Be thankful it isn't more.
I have no clue on how he is going to avoid having things thrown at him by parents of children who have asthma. I don’t know how he is going to end up avoidning being frogmarched out by the citizenry, much less at all the marines as some have suggested. There is no way that at all, he will get reelected. All it takes is one death by an asthmatic to end up wiht him getting impeached.
Fed Gov mandated that albuterol inhalers switch from r12 freon to H134a, the Good Freon, years ago. They could mandate that the epinephrine inhalers switch also.
Asthma disproportionately affects children, families with lower incomes and minorities.
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/sciencenb/asthma/PopulationDisparities.html
Democrats hare poor minorities.
probably another payoff to a favored corporation.
The GOP will never be able to undo all of the crap he is doing if they ran the place for two decades.
“There is no way that at all, he will get reelected. “
I dunno, the MSM has been urging Romney to run for nine years now. They must know he’d lose, or that they can make him lose.
I think a Romney vs Obama race has a good chance of a re-elected Obama.
Especially if we get blasted with every lie Mitt has attempted, like writing a check for Planned Parenthood, being asked about it, lying, then having a picture show up along with corroboration from Planned Parenthood.
We will just throw a few dead ashmatics of the floor of the whitehouse, and maybe the msm will get it..
Albuterol is prescription. So much more for the inhaler, plus the cost of a few doctor or clinic visits.
Every time Obama takes off in Air force One he spews more atmospheric crap then all the inhalers on earth.
How many have needlessly died thanks to eco-nazis?
Pray for America
BINGO!
This would be the trifecta for liberals! Less CFC's into the atmosphere, less healthcare costs because those pesky asthmatics would die sooner, and less CO2 emissions from breathing people. George Costanza would be proud!
If not for primatene mist I wouldn’t have survived one particular night. Beauty of the stuff was that it was only a drugstore away...and very effective.
they would get it a lot faster if the MSM got egged.
The war on useful meds is getting very tiresome. Pseudoephidrine is another one that is getting to be a hassle to get in some locations.
I was pre-adolescent asthmatic, and used an inhaler for a few years. Banning such a small item is more to send a message to the peasants than any other reason, as far as I can tell.
Soooo... you can spray this stuff directly into your lungs to help you BREATHE - but it’s harmful to “the environment”? Got it.
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 take more control.
I think it is instead preparation for federal healthcare.
"Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns" 2nd title
This has got to be a joke. Right? Where was the sarcasm symbol?
Give me some air!
Life Extension magazine has an article (that I can’t link right now because they’re down for maintenance) that tells about how drug companies bribe politicians to get the FDA to get rid of the competitors to the drugs these companies patent.
There are examples of this and one that I recall is estoril, a natural estrogen considered way more safe than PREMARIN which is from the urine of a pregnant horse. The maker of Premarin has bribed our politicians to get the FDA to make estroil way more difficult to get but I can’t remember all the details.
Both sides of the aisle are at fault. And I believe that anyone who tries to disrupt this cash flow will be as trashed as Sarah has been. Follow the money.
Since Sarah had just been talking about crony capitalism I thought this was a real good example of how corporations, our politicians, and the FDA collude to screw We The People.
Chris Christie and my sister are among the millions of Americans who use Asthma Inhalers and other brands .....this is crossing the freedom line again Obama. Get rid of Government WASTE in those huge agency’s Washington Bureaucrats run so slovenly while lining their pockets with a little more moo-la. Clean up that city....and you will have a surplus for you budget.
Their business plan calls for collateral damage
Strangest term I’ve ever lived through.
Obama and company: Save the earth, kill asthmatic children. And a side benefit to offing the children is there’s more money to redirect to campaign donors’ bogus “green” corps.
It’s worse than being forced to to switch to prescription inhalers. The prescriptions inhalers, even the generic ones, were also forced to reformulate to avoid CFCs.
But, there are no generic, reformulated inhalers so the price has doubled even for those with prescriptions.
BTW: The OTC inhalers are cr@p.
What about breathalizers? You remember that memorable speech. Inhalators, breathalizers, inhalers what ever! And they made fun of Bush off the cuff.
Congress, unions, and Moslems are exempted — as always.
And there is no longer a generic albuterol inhaler being made. The so-called ‘brand names’ cost a whole lot more than the generic used to.
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.There's only one conclusion to reach from this:
Obama Hates: White people, the Middle Class, and people with private insurance.:-)
I pay 30.00 for my inhaler and that is with medical insurance. I don’t agree with this but I read that over the counter inhalers are very dangerous. I would never buy one.
I say obammy’s teleprompter should be banned as it produces too much hot air.
This is environmental BS. IT’s just so that the EPA can show you who’s in charge.
I’m really getting fed up with “green”.
My wife picked up a coffee maker last week.
The coffee came out luke-warm. When I looked at the box, it listed it as meeting the “energy saver guidelines”, i.e., green.
I like HOT coffee not dark colored dishwater.
The EPA and all their regulations need to be shut down.
His Omnipotence's polices aside, I think epinephrine based inhalers are a public health menace. People think they can manage their own asthma with a drug that provides no long term relief and wind up getting in big trouble, many die. These OTC inhalers are so old school it is ridiculous.
I know those here who have a conspiracy theory regarding the drug industry will protest, but I say good riddance. My asthma patients are on albuterol for short term, acute management and when they cross a well established threshold I put on other drugs that decrease the underlying need for inhalers.
This isnt Obama’s fault. This is Reagan’s. This is a result of the Montreal Treaty which Reagan signed and hailed as a “monumental achievment”
Wow, So true!!
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