I have to actually PAY for my medical insurance and PAY huge medicare taxes so others can NOT PAY and yet, I still have some deductable for doctors visits and medicines....
so I try to limit how often I go to the doctor and try to avoid prescriptions...
yet now, it seems like they want me to be pestering the doctor more and they want me running into the emergency room for simple colds and sinus headaches....
why can't I treat my simple symptoms myself with some very inexpensive over the counters like plain old Sudafed, or its generic cousins....
BTW....it is always better to take only the medicines you need whenever you are sick....putting Sudafed in with other medicines seems to me to be bad policy....
I would not support an outright ban and think it would create greater harm than good. It appears to be like using a bazooka to cure a blister.
If they want to make it a controlled substance again where a prescription is needed, I could grudginly live with that but an outright ban or having to buy them one pill at a time is downright ridiculous.
There's a lot of stronger stuff out there than people can get a 30-day supply with a prescription just about whenever they need it. I can't fathom the need to make psuedophedrine more controlled than that.
And if you want to gauge the success of such a law, you shouldn't base it on drug labs closed, you should base it on how many fewer cases of meth addiction you are treating. Let's see *those* numbers before declaring any such law a success.