They won’t be satisfied until we’re choking to death in the dark;
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. […]
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.
Eh, save your tears. With nannystate champions like the Canadian Lung Association forcing their “clean air” agenda into the most trivial aspects of our lives, all I can say is “suck on it, bitches.” They’re just getting what they asked for.
Reeks of large pharmaceutical concerns playing the green card.
puhleeze oh lord, do not seat me next to someone with a puppy/pussy!
“The passenger suffered an asthmatic attack at 40,000 ft. We cunna land in time. The puppy/pussy survived.”
I, an anti-science libertarian, would love to see the numbers detailing how much asthma inhalers contribute to ozone depletion. I agree with Bob, this reeks of cronyism.
Wow….. I’ll bet if a new cancer drug that “cured cancer” but put as much ozone depleting crap in the air as an athsma inhaler it would not get approved.
This pisses me off.
But as mentioned…. follow the money. Always follow the money. It’s the money stupid. Somewhere somehow somebody got more money. Or lots of groups got more money.
Look at every news story and follow the money.
Look at Gore…… then follow the money.
“First they came for the Asthmatic, and I did not speak out because I was not Asthmatic….”
Ozone asthma inhaler study hole satellite as big as a freaking bus is getting ready to fall on us.
NASA can model .0001 degree of global warming 12 years from now on an austrialian barrier reef but doesn’t know where this thing is falling.
I hope it splits the white house in half..
Whisky-Tango-Fox!!!@@!! This just proves how demented the Odummest administration is. I come from a family where many members suffer from asthma, this type of law would greatly affect their life style. Hopefully our government laughs in the face of these Fascist-Odummers.
It’s always good to see someone else take others’ lives into their hands.
Great suggestion Kate.
Ah yes, the EPA up to its new tricks, doing an end run on common sense since Obama gave it the power to ignore Congress. Don’t forget, next January the EPA declares war on dust and the farmers will have to quite farming.
I haven’t contributed to the Canadian Lung Association for a number of years since they started acting like morons.
No wonder China and India will bury us economically. The monkeys are running the zoo.
Something else to stockpile in Mexico when on vacation.
well these people are progressives. Maybe this is part of their depopulation eugenics program…
bob – you suggest pharma instigated this. Actually, the way this usually happens is, the EPA gives an ultimatum telling the manufacturer they are banning their product, and gives that corp. a new money maker in it’s place.
The causation starts at the EPA, not the manufacturer. The new product or market is a sop to buy the manufacturer’s acquiescence.
only at sda could a life threatening condition like asthma be the target of scorn and ridicule.
I hope kate gets hit by the goddamm satellite and turned into dog food.
you people are so unbelievably hateful you deserve every milligram of grief you get.
put a fcuking gun to your head you despicable twaht.
Once the gren scam is fully exposed their will be hell to pay for the unsatable lust for money by certain groups.
The lies are unending.
By the way Kate its you who will be paying for the inhailers through tax. Unless you have a plan, which most government workers have. Its your taxes that will be on the line.
By doing this Pharmaaa’s just making drugs ore expensive all along the line.
no fan of sda?
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you smoking dope?
prison warden let you use the library computer?
The post tells about government shutting off inhalers and,
Just forget it,
your lame blame brain wouldn’t hold it anyway..
Self mocking…efficient..
Something else they aren’t telling you, epinephrine inhalers are not the same as albuterol. The chemical pathway is different, they don’t work the same in the body. Some people won’t notice that much difference… but some will. BIG difference, like between breathing and not.
As usual, things are actually worse than what the MSM will let on.
I can hardly wait for the class action lawsuit.
Nobody should be using Epi-spray to treat asthma anyway.
Albuterol (Ventolin) is what you use to treat asthma.
Still not the point I know, but weird nonetheless.
anybody with half a brain could tell we are mocking the progressives who come up with all of these insane regulations, not the condition of asthma…
Much as I don’t like Obama, this isn’t his fault.
The US signed the Montreal Protocol in 2000, like Canada did, to get rid of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that are supposedly affecting the ozone layer. This meant all asthma inhalers available as metered dose inhalers (as well as refrigerant coolers, etc) would be affected. The epinephrine inhaler is the last one to be phased out. All the other similar inhalers like Ventolin/Bricanyl with CFCs were phased out years ago.
Trouble is, looks like no manufacturer wants to make epinephrine inhalers with HFAs (hyrdofluoroalkanes)instead of CFCs likely because the margins are too small. This means all those patients have to switch to prescription Ventonlin(albuterol in US is salbutamol in Canada), which is more costly of course.
Worse still, Ventolin inhalers (and the generics) have had their supply issues in the past. And the ozone layer is doing just fine, last I heard (correct me if I am mistaken)
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM182381.pdf
I could be wrong but I thought that in Canada the only choice an asthmatic had was a prescription for “rescue” inhaler.
@ Valencia, so this is another case of fallout based on a scam.
Somebody let the beer and popcorn guy loose. As far as the moron posting @ 9:07, it so happens I have two grandsons with asthma and this CFC fraud has hit everybody in the pocket book.
Ken
Some say that the CFC ban has worked, which is why we don’t hear anything about the ozone layer any more. Maybe the success of the Montreal protocol (which I think was probably, on balance, needed) was what drove the unneeded Kyoto protocol….
Having said that, in Canada, OTC epinephrine inhalers aren’t even available. All supplanted by Ventolin/Bricanyl etc, all of which are prescription, all of which have HFAs and no CFCs.
In the US, lots of the poorer patients buy these OTC epinephrine inhalers because they are not on the controller steroid inhalers as they are pricey. That means asthma is not very well controlled in some poor neighbourhoods. This ban will affect these patients but Obamacare will cover it…..right?
Does anyone remember when CFCs were ubiquitous like in hairspray, cleaning products, etc Now we have these pumps….
The EPA is just one of America’s neo-fascist organizations. Look for one to come to a town near you.
it’s going to get worse….a LOT worse….
from: http://www.americansforprosperity.org
EPA Wants to add 230,000 MORE Bureaucrats
We’ve always said the EPA’s extra-legal attempt to rewrite the 1970 Clean Air Act to twist it into a greenhouse gas law — cap-and-trade by other means — would be a disaster. Up to now, EPA tried to claim it would only apply permitting requirements to large industrial facilities. Now it is finally telling the truth — that applying the Clean Air Act as written will force permitting for even small commercial facilities, schools, hospitals, churches, restaurants that use natural gas as a cooking fuel, and even larger single family homes.
In a court filing last week, EPA quantified the vast new army of federal bureaucrats it will need to process millions of new permits under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V permitting process. A shocking 230,000 new EPA bureaucrats at a cost of $21 billion — more than tripling the EPA’s total budget. In the filing EPA says it will reach these levels by April 30, 2016.
Based on the historical relationship between the number of federal regulators and private sector employment recently quantified by the Phoenix Center the addition of 230,000 federal bureaucrats would destroy 22.5 million private sector jobs.
The EPA doesn’t have to do this. The EPA and Obama White House have falsely claimed they were ordered to act by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA, but the court in that case only ruled that the EPA had to decide whether to act based on the language of the statute. The same rationale they offered for phasing the rules in under the tailoring rule — administrative necessity and absurd results — are the valid legal reason they should have declined to act and left the political question of whether to act on greenhouse gases up to Congress.
Since they seem intent on moving forward, Congress must step in and stop them. As soon as possible.
anyone remember the ‘dickless wonder’ from Ghostbusters ? the epa used him as a template for new hires….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-b-CfHbPGQ
The solution of course, is to withdraw from the Montreal Protocol, and make EPA strictly an advisory agency.