Obama banning medical devices he can't pronounce (asthma inhalers banned over 'environmental concerns')

I must have posted this video several dozen times already, usually associated with his propensity for gaffes:

And it's not just medical devices. Banned next will be the words 'intercontinental,' 'corpsman,' and the Austrian language. But there's real news here too - Obama, in what I can only guess is a pretext to saving money when ObamaCare is fully implemented, wants to kill of asthmatics: Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration 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.

If you are caught in a flood, and you go out on your porch and piss into it, you are technically contributing to said flood. This doesn't even come close to that because the ozone depletion scaremongering of decades past was an utter hoax. in essence, there is no flood here to even piss into. 

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 use environmentally friendly products they are almost always worse:

Er, industry also knew how to make low-flow toilets, which is why every toilet in my recently renovated rental house clogs at least once a week.  They knew how to make more energy efficient dryers, which is why even on high, I have to run every load through the dryer in said house twice.  And they knew how to make inexpensive compact flourescent bulbs, which is why my head hurts from the glare emitting from my bedroom lamp.    They also knew how to make asthma inhalers without CFCs, which is why I am hoarding old albuterol inhalers that, unlike the new ones, a) significantly improve my breathing and b) do not make me gag.  Etc.

And the regulatory state continues to grow bigger, eating liberties and freedoms along the way. No matter what, the regulatory state just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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