Governor Hickenlooper of Colorado has followed Bloomers lead and is now enforcing the same hospital restrictions.

Just another part of the plan. Less pains meds, more pain, more resulting deaths, including suicides. Red pill or blue pill? How about neither?

Two years ago it was: "No surgery for you...take this pain pill."

Now it´s:"Hurry up and die...untended in the hallway...in pain."

Bloomburg says, so what if you have a little pain.
Under his plan, pain med refills cannot be called in, faxed in, and are not refillable. That is a HUGE obstacle for many people to overcome--going to the doctor´s office to pick up a refill.
So, we punish the sick and elderly because of the drug abuse of miscreants? I say give out as much painkillers, free and in whatever quantity desired. Let the miscreants abuse them and die off to thin the herd of undesirables.
Nanny Bloomburg thus makes this imperial proclamation.

So NYC Mayor Bloomberg doesn´t think this will harm patients?

“Number one, there’s no evidence of that,” Bloomberg said. “Number two, supposing it is really true, so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit. The other side of the coin is people are dying and there’s nothing perfect.”

Is there no end to Bloomberg´s arrogance?

I´d like to add that yes, having uncontrolled pain CAN harm people. When people have unmanaged pain, they are less likely to move, less likely to participate in exercise. For some, this could mean increased risk for pneumonia, bedsores, blood clots, etc.

Also, as a home health care RN, I want to emphasize how very difficult it can be for some patients to leave their homes, often because of the very pain that needs to be controlled. Many health care providers have no clue about this. It IS a big deal for some patients to have to increase their doctor visits to four times per year instead of two in order to get their prescriptions refilled.

I´m also appalled that a so-called "pain management specialist" thinks this is no big deal.

Evidently, we and our doctors are too stupid to decide what´s best. We need mindless bureaucrats following the script handed to them by legislators to make these decisions for us.

On an unrelated topic, has anyone else noticed how ammo has REALLY gone up in price? Funny, that.

Ridiculous regulation. Druggies will still have drugs, gang-bangers will still have guns.

Innocent citizens will pay for the crimes of the criminals. They are killing us softly with their regulations.

anyone out there wishing an excruciating but non-fatal condition on bloomburg?

Communism and control at its finest. Submit and die.

Bloomberg should go through some procedure like a Radical Prostatectomy and go home with a Foley Catheter inserted to pee through and go through the recovery period with minimal or reduced pain medication. I did it and was really thankful that I had ample pain medication. If I was confronted by a rule by some pompous ass of a politician that said that I had to suffer I would likely have resorted to--- Well, lets us say that I would have not been a happy camper.

People go through lots of different procedures that are radical in nature that result in lots of pain. This is not going to go over so well with patients and Doctors. I can imagine that they will just ignore the rules. Another example of citizens reduced to being lawbreakers for living normal lives.

Like guns, with-holding pain management medication will result in a lot of people stocking up on it when ever they can. Throw it away when it expires??? Are you crazy?

And yes, I have noticed first hand how expensive ammo is.

"so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit."

So you didn´t get enough painkillers. Who cares? The important thing is to keep drugs out of the hands of those who shouldn´t have them...

How´s that War on Drugs working for you now?

#5, perhaps the "pain management specialist" is figuring there will twice the office visits, that he can charge for, per patient?

Sorry for the double posts but right now, I am thinking of a number of chronic pain conditions that I wish upon Mayor Bloomberg since he thinks suffering a little more is no big deal.

This painkiller idiocy is the same thought process as gun control. Because a few abuse all must suffer.

Govn has no ability whatsoever to think critically.

This is the same Government that REQUIRES us to measure pain as an additional vital sign on a scale of 1-10. I can be sanctioned and SUED for not providing adequate care for pain.
Which is it ?!?!?!?!?

This government really stinks. We will soon all be in lockdown to prevent us from being harmed by a terrorist attack.

I can´t believe it´s come to this.

What an idiot. Now he thinks he is a doctor.

This hurts cancer patients with unbearable pain. One of my friends has to go to a pain clinic with the drugies now for pain killers instead of getting it from her doc.

These fools continue down THIS road and the pain the patient is feeling will be nothing compared to the pain the fools will be feeling when the patient and family get their hands fee. They will be begging for pain relief of any kind. Pain drives a person crazy...good defense.

In the UK they have the LCP (Liverpool Care Protocol) where the doctor decides who is unlikely to survive and give them pain killers but withholds fluids and nourishment until the patient dies.

Now Bloomberg offers the BCL (Bloomberg Cares Less) which is to withhold fluids, nourishment and painkillers.

I think Bloomberg is Obama´s trial ballooner. Once Obama sees the feedback, he knows how to squash it. Saying that making peeps in pain suffer is a fair trade off if it keeps drugs from dopers lacks any compassion, I can´t breath.

Now let´s back up a couple years, when Obama decided things like hip replacements are wasted on old peeps so we should consider just giving them pain meds instead. Now he´s limiting the pain meds! I guess he wants old folks to beg for euthanasia.