Don’t get injured in New York City, because Nanny Bloomberg knows better than your doctor:
New York City to Restrict Prescription Painkillers in Public Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms
Under the new city policy, most public hospital patients will no longer be able to get more than three days’ worth of narcotic painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet. Long-acting painkillers, including OxyContin, a familiar remedy for chronic backache and arthritis, as well as Fentanyl patches and methadone, will not be dispensed at all.
How often is Oxycontin prescribed in emergency rooms anyway, and why is Bloomberg sticking his nose on this?
And lost, stolen or destroyed prescriptions will not be refilled.
After I came up with this post’s title I found out Stephen Green had it, too.
A mayor’s job is shovel the snow, catch criminals. Not this stuff.
If NYC has a problem with junkies and painkillers, I suggest they start dealing with the junkies. Instead, Bloomberg will crack down mostly on people who aren’t breaking the law, by doing what governments do best: Creating shortages of vital goods.
But fear not, the short, plump mayor knows what’s best for you.
UPDATE:
Howard Portnoy:
Michael R. Bloomberg isn’t a doctor, and he doesn’t even play one on television. But that hasn’t stopped him from practicing medicine. Last July, he ordered New York City hospitals to begin hiding baby formula so that mothers of newborns would be forced to nurse their infant children. A month earlier, he enacted a ban on soft drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces, seeming to understand that if he didn’t take action, his patients – er, subjects … er, constituents … would drink themselves to an early, sugary death.
Look up “Bloomberg” in the latest illustrated thesaurus & his photo pops up under “officious little pr*ck” faustasblog.com/2013/01/nanny-… @elbloombito
— Fausta (@Fausta) January 11, 2013