that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
#eu 2025-11-09
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Highlights from this day
- peak_split — my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did crossing a border to buy it happens… 11:55
- fasting_insulin — the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix 11:56
- fasting_insulin — the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year 12:46
- fasting_insulin — is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere 13:58
26 days inside the eu
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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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, someone check my working
privat means you pay
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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for the archive no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget, ymmv
handling fee is worse than vat
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
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
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
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