Posted on 12/29/2007 10:02:50 AM PST by grundle
And the elimination of asbestos in the insulation on the steel infrastructure of the Twin Towers.
Yes, but the change in the propellant has increased the cost of the inhaler. My son was using an albuterol inhaler, which was a generic medication. Our co-payment on that was $10. When the new inhalers came out, he was prescribed Proventil HFA, which was a non-formulary drug with a $30 co-pay. What was worse was that while the albuterol inhaler had 30 days of medication in it, the new inhaler only had 20 days’. After complaining to the doctor’s office, I was able to get his doctor to prescribe a Xopenex HFA inhaler, which is a formulary drug with a $20 copay and a 30 day supply. This medication seems to be as effective as the albuterol but it is costing us twice as much.
The federal government has no business telling drug companies what kind of propellants should be used in asthma inhalers. I don’t care what effect the old propellant supposedly had on the environment, this kind of government meddling is a worse form of pollution.
Environmentalism is a cult much like extremist Islam.
And, in many cases, more dangerous.
You've got that right! The Islamists will give us a "choice" of convert or die; the environmentalists just want 5 billion of us to die - doesn't matter who as long as it isn't them...
Same kind of thing happed during the late eighties when the ozone fright first started. My allergy medication used to come in an aerosol and was quite affective. Then around 88 or 89, the use of aerosols were outlawed (at least the accelerates used) which made the medication nearly useless.
Clinton
Obama
Edwards
McCain
Romney
Huckabee
And of course our current President has given AGW a tip of the hat.
I left the lesser Dem candidates out as they are a given.
I am sick of all of this BS. Shaking my head some more...
So which inhaler was whacked by the enviros?
Supposedly any and all with CFCs as a propellant.
You can always go along to get along. Become a lib.
Nah I highly doubt that will happen..Do you EVER see me as one??? EFF
“Proventil used the same formulation before and after the propellant change theres no difference in the medication.”
r9etb, if this is true, why does Proventil HFA state on its homepage:
“Rapid heart beat, vomiting, chest pain, and palpitation occurred more frequently with PROVENTIL® HFA.” (than with Albuterol CFC) See third line from the bottom of their homepage, LINK 4 on the petition (petition links are below).
Could it be the use of albuterol sulfate rather than albuterol base (which is used in CFC albuterol)? The use of HFA instead of CFC propellant? The combination of ethanol and oleic acid as an excipient rather than pure oleiec acid (which is used in CFC albuterol)? Or some interaction of the above? (Ethanol is listed as a toxic substance by the EPA, a Class 3 Residual Solvent by the FDA, exists in HFA inhalers (except for Ventolin) in doses high enough to register on blood alcohol tests, and has been shown to cause BRONCHOCONSTRICTION in a subset of asthmatic patients.) It is NOT the same medication.
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