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#eu 2025-07-31
Thursday18 messages4 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- snac_and_water — a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i… 14:09
- snac_and_water — has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it 14:55
- declared_value — that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu 15:22
- warsaw_vial — a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter the price… 16:24
- cat_on_the_tray — transit inside the eu was 20 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first… 16:41
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
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nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
[edited]that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
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the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter
the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
cross border in theory
approval isnt reimbursement
ok so crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
transit inside the eu was 20 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
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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