Democrats care about the sick & poor?

I often get perturbed with polls asking questions like "Do you think we should have cleaner air?".

The obvious answer is "sure, who wouldn't be for cleaner air".

But life isn't as clean as that. See, in real life we have these things called "priorities" and "choices".

Now the conventional wisdom is that conservatives hate on the poor and sick. But ask yourself this question who's responsible for this astronomic increase in asthma medication?

Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" Dec. 31, forcing patients using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch.

The medicine inside these rescue inhalers -- the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack -- isn't changing. But the chemicals used to puff that drug into your lungs are.

No more chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, that damage Earth's protective ozone layer. By year's end, all albuterol inhalers must be powered by the more eco-friendly chemical HFA, or hydrofluoroalkane.

The downside: The new inhalers cost more, $30 to $60 compared to as little as $5 or $10 for the disappearing CFC inhalers.

And patients face a learning curve. HFA inhalers must be used differently than the old-fashioned kind. The medicine feels and tastes different, sometimes alarming new users despite doctors' assurances that it works just as well.

"There's still significant confusion," said Dr. Harvey Leo of the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. "Patients will tell you, 'I don't feel the puff anymore'"

So who's really the champion of the sick in this country? Those big, bad conservatives who look to rape the environment for the benefit of a few asthmatics.

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