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Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
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Posted on 09/23/2011 12:34:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns 3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is 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 deal with environmentally friendly products they're are almost always worse:


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For crying out loud.......
1 posted on 09/23/2011 12:34:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

These people are evil, pure, unadulterated evil...............


2 posted on 09/23/2011 12:35:31 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, but we’re going to go make jobs, jobs, jobs, right?


3 posted on 09/23/2011 12:36:15 PM PDT by henkster (Socialists and liberals all want jobs; they just don't want to work.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Not the inhalators!!!


4 posted on 09/23/2011 12:36:30 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Sub-Driver
switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere

Crony Capitalism at work. This guy is an idiot.

5 posted on 09/23/2011 12:37:06 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ok, I am out of town, forgot my inhalator, having a mild attack but have to find a doctor who does not know me or my history to get a scrip for an expensive inhalator rather than getting one at the drug store.
These people in the obama admin and crazy.


6 posted on 09/23/2011 12:37:30 PM PDT by svcw (It is who I am, it is what I do.)
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To: Sub-Driver
A black man, a communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien walk into a bar.

The bartender says: "What can I get you Mr. President?"

I dunno, seems appropriate. Everything else is clearly going to Hell. Happy Friday!

7 posted on 09/23/2011 12:38:32 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama to asthma patients; drop dead.


8 posted on 09/23/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT by Grunthor (Rick Perry; George W. Bush' smart cousin.)
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To: Sub-Driver
You should see the price of Primatene mist inhalers on eBay and the like. For the past 6 months the prices have been skyrocketing...when you can find them. People with Asthma are panicking...and they are pissed.
9 posted on 09/23/2011 12:40:43 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Deploy. Dominate. Disappear.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Here are the regs:
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/exemptions/inhalers.html


10 posted on 09/23/2011 12:42:12 PM PDT by svcw (It is who I am, it is what I do.)
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Must protect the environment from all those who may be able to breath if their Asthma is brought under control. Obama...deciding who can breath and who cannot.


11 posted on 09/23/2011 12:43:37 PM PDT by trailboss800
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I dont care for Primatene but when I forget my inhaler...? its a lifesaver. Now there is no rescue around the corner.

I would imagine we will begin hearing about the uptick in emergency room visits for folks who would have otherwise just gone to Walgreens and purchased a 20 Primatene.

And they cant imagine why healthcare costs keep going up.

12 posted on 09/23/2011 12:43:37 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: Sub-Driver

The SOB wouldn’t allow this if his kids needed these inhalators.


13 posted on 09/23/2011 12:44:01 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Sub-Driver

I despise these people. They are foul beyond imagination.


14 posted on 09/23/2011 12:48:00 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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This article is a joke, right? The Weekly standard, is that like World weekly news and all that with Bat boy?


15 posted on 09/23/2011 12:48:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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But, but, but

Poll: Majority of Americans say Obama’s presidency either about the same or worse than Bush’s.

About the same?
Good luck on breathing, people.
When they take over the ‘drug making’ we’ll really have problems.


16 posted on 09/23/2011 12:48:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Rabid democRATS and 0bama the dictator own it all now.)
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Do you know who’s going to be hardest hit? Women and minorities:

In 2009, about 2,380,000 African Americans reported that they currently have asthma.
African American women were 30% more likely to have asthma than non-Hispanic White women, from 2001-2003.
In 2007, African Americans were three times more likely to die from asthma related causes than the White population.

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=6170


17 posted on 09/23/2011 12:51:26 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama is an ignoramus, but even ignoramuses can pick sound advisers. This guy has ignoramuses for advisers too, and those ignoramus advisers consult with other ignoramuses who haven’t ever held a job in the private sector, and don’t have clue one to real world existence.

They live in a dream world, dreaming dreams embedded in dreams embedded in nightmares (for us).


18 posted on 09/23/2011 12:51:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
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The federal government is exempt from cost-benefit analysis of its policies.

Not exempting them would imply that they are not omniscient.

19 posted on 09/23/2011 12:52:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: bergmeid
The SOB wouldn’t allow this if his kids needed these inhalators.

Ah, but his kids would be exempt!


20 posted on 09/23/2011 12:52:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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