is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
#eu 2026-06-09
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Highlights from this day
- invoice_mismatch — a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries 21:15
- warsaw_vial — 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 21:41
- warsaw_vial — 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 21:46
- blank_run — i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling 22:28
transit inside the eu was 16 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
that was 2024 pricing
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 - 260cross border in theory
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
quick one my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
amsterdam_aliquottransit inside the eu was 16 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i…
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
three working days
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check the date on that
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
prices moved since
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slightly off topic but poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
[edited]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
approval isnt reimbursement
varies by pharmacy
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
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
diabetes yes weight no
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
[edited]i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in 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
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to