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
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#eu 2025-11-07
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- fasting_insulin — coming back after 5 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere 03:05
- snac_and_water — i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, i have it written down somewhere 04:27
- snac_and_water — anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes 04:29
- amsterdam_aliquot — parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly 06:12
- snac_and_water — is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap 06:16
write simple english
privat means you pay
slightly off topic but anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
coming back after 5 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
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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
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
slightly off topic but anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
three working days
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has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, i have it written down somewhere
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anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
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
check the date on that
*that should say weekly
varies by pharmacy
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
ok so nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
13 days inside the eu
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
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can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
genuine question is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
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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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
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diabetes yes weight no
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round