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From the EXECUTIVE ORDER REDUCING PRESCRIPTION DRUG SHORTAGES:

"The FDA shall communicate to the Department of Justice (DOJ) any findings that shortages have led market participants to stockpile the affected drugs or sell them at exorbitant prices. The DOJ shall then determine whether these activities are consistent with applicable law. Based on its determination, DOJ, in coordination with other State and Federal regulatory agencies as appropriate, should undertake whatever enforcement actions, if any, it deems appropriate."

While I have a problem with big international pharma, big international chemical companies, and crony capitalism (think replacing CFC inhalers with garbage HFA ones), I am also aware of the cost of developing new medications and manufacturing quality generics.

This all reminds me of Hillary's mandate to make vaccines more available by in essence regulating that manufacturers run at a loss.

I think the problem with the asthma inhalers can be laid at the feet of the Enviros. They don’t like the propellent in those canisters. Therefore, they MUST be banned.!!!! SIGH !!!!

The other inhalers cost ALOT more—& are available ONLY be prescription, which requires a repetitive round of appearances at your doctor to keep getting the prescriptions.

It is the EPA & the Enviros who are to blame.

While I have a problem with big international pharma, big international chemical companies, and crony capitalism

You seem to have a problem with "big" companies which, at least to me, means you have a problem with success. I'm sure you also have a problem with "big" food, "big" oil, "big" insurance, "big" medical device, "big" transportation, "big" mining, "big" retail, "big" finance, "big" information and on and on.

The whole "big is bad" meme is a bunch of nonsense. If you have a problem with crony capitalism then your problem is with "big" government because government is the enabler of crony capitalism. Instead of railing on the private industries that created the massive amount of wealth we enjoy today, your ire should be directed at the big government that allows the quid pro quo to exist.

(think replacing CFC inhalers with garbage HFA ones

Again, your problem isn't with private industry. Do you think "big" bad pharma wanted to make the changes that will render their medicines less effective? Good grief. This is a result of government overreach. Period.

I am also aware of the cost of developing new medications and manufacturing quality generics.

If true, how in the heck can you complain about "big" pharma and your alleged crony capitalism? It costs hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade in time to bring a NME to market. The FDA kills most of these new offerings before they even reach the clinical trial stage. Yet, you want us to believe that "big" pharma and the fedgov are joined at the hip helping each other out. What a pantload.