Indovina quante persone pagano per le droghe di base all’estero?
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di Hefty-Shelter-2024
Indovina quante persone pagano per le droghe di base all’estero?
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di Hefty-Shelter-2024
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I live close to the French border. Sandoz Generic Co-Amoxicillin costs 4,51€ in France, as negotiated by the French Social Security, which is TEN TIMES CHEAPER than in Switzerland.
Meaning that, despite my Fr. 500+ health insurance with the lowest deductible, the 10% co-pay would often make it cheaper to buy in France out of pocket, instead of buying in Switzerland *the exact same generic drug from the exact same Swiss laboratory*.
In VD and GE, the taxpayer supports a third of insured persons with health insurance subsidies.
We keep whining, ranting and looking for magical solutions, while completely ignoring the utterly obvious pharma lobby rip-off. I am not talking about new cancer drugs. I am talking about amoxicillin and paracetamol, invented a century ago.
We don’t buy drugs for pleasure. We buy drugs because we need to. And yet, we are being collectively ripped off.
What a sad, sad joke.
Another massive cost-generating factor is that for pretty much any drug you’ll need a prescription from a doctor. Then we complain we don’t have enough of them, yet I feel like every doctor spends half his time writing prescriptions that could easily be vetted by a pharmacist. Who is trained for exactly that. It’s outrageous, yet nobody does anything about it.