DUmbass can't breathe due to regulations she'd probably endorse

[BannedFromDU]

kickysnana  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed May-06-09 02:29 PM
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Unfolding crisis among those with breathing problems...
   
My doctor refilled my albuterol asthma inhaler last month and instructed me that I might need a double dose in order to get the same amount of medicine that I had gotten from my last prescription that had the old propellant.

Last night at a support group, a former MD, former drug rep now working as a PT pharmacy tech due to chronic disease told us that the old inhalers cost wholesale $7 and the reordered yesterday and the new inhalers cost $129 up from $65. Most inhalers that work as well or better than albuterol cost $300-650 wholesale. The PCA who works with my Aunt has three kids on inhalers and her copay went from $4 to $45 before the new doubling of price this month.

The over-the-counter "bronchial mist" containing epinepherine, $6 at Walgreens at the time, were pulled from the market about 2 years ago due to regulations.

Those of us with allergies/asthma often took Sudefed or Actifed. Anti-meth Legislation put those medicines behind the counter with more paperwork than oxycontin and made sales plummet so right now the only place I can get them is in generic form is Walgreens. The original manufacturer changed their product to something else.

My first inhaler was Serevent. It worked about 100 times better, a lot faster and lasted longer than the albuteral but it was pulled several years ago due to it being harder on unhealthy hearts.

Don't be surprised to see people debilitated and gasping for air, in church, at the grocery store or even while driving because they cannot get or cannot afford the medicine that keeps them breathing.

What a crying shame.


     So, basically, her favorite options were pulled by a government agency worried about the well-being of consumers. The fact that you have to sign for Sudafed is evidently too taxing for her, so I suppose we should go back to making it easy to cook crystal in trailer parks.

     Welcome to the age of Big Government making decisions that increase the cost and decrease the efficiency of healthcare, moron. And you think single payer is going to magically fix all that?

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm sure it is in some way Bush's fault.

[JohnnyReb]

Funny she should mention church. I keep a sinus problem all the time, nose stays stopped up and I don't take anything for it.......but come Sunday morning, one hour in church and I come out of there with clear sinuses. For an hour or two I can breathe easily then it's stuffed up again until next Sunday.

I wish I knew what was in the church that clears my airways so well?

[BannedFromDU]

I wish I knew what was in the church that clears my airways so well?

     Maybe your church has really good air handling. Sometimes even the right filter on air conditioners makes a huge difference.

[jukin]

DUmbasses are truly disconnected from reality.

[franksolich]

DUmbasses are truly disconnected from reality.

Yeah.

On one hand, the primitives want a nanny government to protect them from harm.

On the other hand, the primitives squawk when the government does exactly that.

[MarshallLaw]

Funny she should mention church. I keep a sinus problem all the time, nose stays stopped up and I don't take anything for it.......but come Sunday morning, one hour in church and I come out of there with clear sinuses. For an hour or two I can breathe easily then it's stuffed up again until next Sunday.

I wish I knew what was in the church that clears my airways so well?

Maybe your sinus cavities are possessed. 



(Considering my own chronic sinus problems, and given what's come out of them from time to time, I'm pretty sure mine are.)