Another Day Another Banned Product
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OTC inhalers to be phased out to protect ozone layer
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44627081/ ... one-layer/
So now all of these people are going to have to make a doctors appointment and then
go to a doctor’s appointment they never had to do otherwise to get a prescription (increased costs, copays, insurance paperwork, gasoline consumption, additional miles on the car, etc) a big pain in the ass :x
– pay for a more expensive product (increased costs, insurance coverage now has an impact, copays, pharmacist involvement rather than OTC. And the idea that this is going to protect the ozone layer is ridiculous. Why doesn't the FDA and the EPA just out law breathing and be done with all of us ? :evil:
I thought I heard somewhere that the gov was bringing down healthcare cost. :?
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44627081/ ... one-layer/
So now all of these people are going to have to make a doctors appointment and then
go to a doctor’s appointment they never had to do otherwise to get a prescription (increased costs, copays, insurance paperwork, gasoline consumption, additional miles on the car, etc) a big pain in the ass :x
– pay for a more expensive product (increased costs, insurance coverage now has an impact, copays, pharmacist involvement rather than OTC. And the idea that this is going to protect the ozone layer is ridiculous. Why doesn't the FDA and the EPA just out law breathing and be done with all of us ? :evil:
I thought I heard somewhere that the gov was bringing down healthcare cost. :?
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This policy was put in place in 2007.
oh wait a tic....
who was president then??
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
You'd think these bureaucrats would be focusing their energies on trying to cut back on the causes of asthma, and on damage to the environment in general, rather than on a medicine that helps people to breathe.
I wonder if this latest move by the medical industry is just another way for them to line their pockets?
Bush was... And for what it's worth i didn't even mention obama you did. Here's another ban for ya that took place under the bush administration. The banning of the incandescent light bulb.Which has led to several GE plant closings. The plants went to Mexico and china. And wait gimmie you ready for this? Are you sitting down? A Republican congressman introduced the bill. My point is gimmie the federal gov is in our lives at every turn.A fed gov that has the power to tell us what kind of light bulbs,toilets,toasters ect. Is a gov that has way to much power. I bet you can't name one thing that the federal gov in one way or another isn't involved in. On a side note however I thought it was a kick in teeth from Obama when during his last speech he's up there like a dictator yelling "pass this bill" and the same time Jeffery Immelt and that thug Trumpka are sitting next to the first lady. :? This guy is his job czar but he's sending jobs to china. Can someone please explain this?
A nationwide grassroots campaign launched this week asking Congress to repeal the ban on incandescent light bulbs. The effort is being pushed by FreedomAction, a self-described “web-based gathering of activists.”
The ban on incandescent light bulbs is scheduled to begin Jan. 1, 2012. It was included in a comprehensive energy bill that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007.
One of the ban’s chief sponsors, Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, is now the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He’s promised a hearing on the ban, but so far no such hearing has been scheduled.
In December, when Upton was vying for the chairmanship, he changed positions on the mandatory switch from incandescent to CFL light bulbs. At the time, Upton said, “The last thing we wanted to do was infringe upon personal liberties — and this has been a good lesson that Congress does not always know best.”
Myron Ebell, director of FreedomAction, said in a statement announcing the campaign, “The light bulb ban is an outrageous government limitation on consumer choice and intrusion into the home of every American.”
Bills to repeal the ban have been introduced before. One, by Republican Reps. Joe Barton of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Michael Burgess of Texas was introduced last fall. A similar bill is expected later this month from Republican Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming.
Supporters of the repeal can sign FreedomAction’s petition at FreeOurLight.org
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/09/campa ... -bulb-ban/
You're telling me that someone on an inhaler isn't already seeing a doctor? :roll:
yes ...with a more expensive replacment I'd bet.
Godfather.
Not everybody has the same type of asthma. Some people use inhalers for other breathing problems. You could be right,but my point is how the hell is something you inhale going to effect the Ozone layer? When someone farts? The whole thing is ridiculous if you think about it. What if they were banning something like uh I don't know.. Butt lube maybe . Would that get your attention ? Not trying to disrespect you I'm only trying to get you to see how insane these bureaucrats are.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Well no.. You are trying to disrespect me and you're doing it very poorly... Like conevatives often do when they don't understand facts and just knee-jerk react to new things.
And you're kind of making a fool of yourself... Because there are kinds of "butt lube," as you put it, that are banned. Petroleum-based lube tears mucus membranes and damages latex condoms, water-based lubes with the spermicde nonoxenol 9 used to be marketed as condoms that killed the HIV virus but it was later determined that it cauad micro-fissures in skin which actually boosted the chance of infection.
So don't you look like a silly, uninformed person now?
If the inhaler in question damages e ozone layer... That's what it does. So they need to find better alternatives. If you think that's silly... Well, sorry... It's not.
Jesus dude lighten up.. I said I wasn't trying to disrespect you. I'm sorry it was a lame example.. So now I know about petroleum based lubes. Thank you.. Anyway, It wasn't a knee jerk reaction. People are going to be affected in one way or another due to this ban. That was my only point. If the new ones are going to be better for the environment then why can't they be more affordable? Why should you have to get a prescription ? It's going to cost people even more that don't have health ins. I understand that the OTC ones have CCFC's and that they are bad for the ozone,but If they are going to ban a product they shouldn't replace it with something that's going to cost more or make it more difficult to get. Can't you at least agree on that?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."