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#canada 2025-01-19

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  • yyz_vial — for the archive has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit 20:16
  • yyz_vial — unrelated but the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for 22:44
  • typosquat_tay — coming back to this depot delays in january, has anyone had a parcel sit out in the cold 22:47
YV

for the archive has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit

reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
  private clinic, UK      145 - 220
  statutory, DE            10 co-pay
  private script, DE      180 - 240
  pharmacy, PL             95 - 140
  pharmacy, SE            210 - 260
SS

there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time

FT

the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that

i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything

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FT

coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another

FT

i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double

quebec is different

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powder survived a freeze

FT

i had a parcel sit in an unheated depot at minus eighteen for two days and the powder tested fine

diabetes covered, weight not

is provincial coverage as much of a patchwork as it looks from outside

wouldnt use a thawed solution

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that was a pilot not policy

FT

a lyophilised vial that froze in transit is almost certainly fine. a reconstituted one that froze is a different matter

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PP

the canada to us gap was reported at roughly a third to a half of the us price a year or two ago, and that will have moved

YV

i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy

transit was 13 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility, take that with a pinch of salt

unrelated but the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for

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