Asthma medications are a matter of life and death. Inhalers and other asthma medications keep asthmatics alive by allowing them to breathe. Asthma is a chronic condition.  Asthma medications are not cheap, and it’s not always easy for asthmatics to pay for their drugs. When faced with financial difficulties, many asthmatics have to decide if they can do without their medications to save money. This should not happen as patients who have other life threatening  conditions quite rightly receive free prescriptions so please let no more asthmatics end up in hospital for lack of an inhaler.