how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
#eu 2026-04-14
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- fasting_insulin — is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot 19:50
- blank_run — germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription 19:58
- blank_run — coming back to this my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, take that with a… 21:54
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that was 2024 pricing
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is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
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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
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
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anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
poland was cheapest
approval isnt reimbursement
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not, someone check my working
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other, not advice obviously
nordics are brutal
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, ymmv
coming back to this my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, take that with a pinch of salt
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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
netherlands was reported in here at around 200 euros a month out of pocket a year or so ago, with conditions attached to any reimbursement