update from 15 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
#eu 2025-03-07
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Highlights from this day
- gip_glp_gil — i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork 14:10
- area_percent — a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point… 14:22
- gip_glp_gil — the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither 14:25
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
diabetes yes weight no
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
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a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
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for the archive in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
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for the archive pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
prices moved since
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for the archive that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
handling fee is worse than vat