a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that, take that with a pinch of salt
#eu 2025-08-21
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unrelated but the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
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how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
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genuine question poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
Inter-lab diff for lot F-1330: 97.4% vs 99%. Within expected range.
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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
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
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is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it, not advice obviously
right so i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
member reported
vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
three working days
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
privat means you pay
that was 2024 pricing
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
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
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary 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
8 days inside the eu
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*Medutest not the other one
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
check the date on that
write simple english
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes