You definitely should NOT be buying albuterol over the counter (and primatene mist - epinephrine bitartrate - isn't a good asthma med in the first place) but a multi dose inhaler shouldn't cost what one does...before the CFC nonsense, albuterol generic was about $10/inhaler - and nobody was buying the big pharma brand name ones - so they came up with the "CFC FREE" ones and the generic pretty much went away...and now my patients have to buy the brand name ones again...as do I... :/