Didn’t the Obama regime try to implement some kind of environmental order that effectively banned certain components in this drug? All in the name of environmental issues of all things.
I believe they banned the CFC propellant used that was very effective and replaced it with something that was not nearly as good. All in the name of protecting the ozone layer. And I think it was done at the end of Bush Jr.
That would be HFC’s, which don’t have medicinal value, but were the inesrt gases used in albuteral inhalers. This forced asthmatics to use the less effective powder based inhalers. I’ll never forgive him for that.
They lost their Montreal Protocol exemption in 2005 and change formulations in 2008, but replacing CFC propellants wouldn’t cause severe shortages or even increase costs. It was actually the pharma companies who lobbied for it, as it allowed them to re-patent their drugs without having to really change anything.
There is a correlational between asthma and urbanization, so live where the air is cleaner for lower risk. Of course, the entire western USA is breathing China’s air pollution...