


Alcune settimane fa stavo viaggiando in Brasile con mia moglie. Siamo andati in una farmacia perché avevo bisogno di una crema antinfiammatoria.
Lo cerco intorno e ne trovo uno uguale a Voltaren Dolo che troviamo qui. Lo stesso marchio GSK (ora Haleon) che ha un tessuto a Nyon, non troppo lontano da dove vivo. Mentre ne prendo uno di loro dico a mia moglie come uno scherzo che forse viene da quel tessuto. Ero sicuro che il prezzo (come tutti i farmaci) era molto più economico che in Svizzera.
Guardo la scatola e … wtf viene da quel tessuto svizzero e costa circa 12 CHF mentre se lo compro a casa pago 39chf per questo.
Qualcosa è veramente fuggito con il nostro sistema sanitario in Svizzera. Lo stesso farmaco dallo stesso tessuto svizzero è circa 3 volte più economico dall’altra parte del mondo.
Per essere chiari, sono davvero felice che i brasiliani paghino molto meno perché hanno anche meno potere d’acquisto. È solo folle che un bene che abbia percorso metà del mondo sia venduto più economico che se lo acquisti a pochi chilometri da dove è stato realizzato.
Le grandi compagnie farmaceutiche stanno solo giocando con noi e poi ogni anno sentiamo “i costi sanitari sono troppo alti, dobbiamo aumentare la tua assicurazione sanitaria” … Big Pharma, assicurazione sanitaria e parte dei politici (che hanno la loro responsabilità nei prezzi della medicina in Svizzera) stanno lavorando per ottenere profitti folli …
Mi chiedo da quanto tempo lo accetteremo …
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1jy3977
di Karsa_1312
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What would be a fair price then?who decides on a fair price? Should the government intervene in a privat owned company is it that whar you are saying? What would the shareholder think? Happy to listen to your arguments…
How long we will accept this?
This is tradition.
If there is no “subvention” coming from the state in brasil I don’t see other explanations. If we ignore the cost of shipping, i don’t thinck that the distribution cost 3 times more in Switzerland that in brasil.
Volaren is a brand-name owned by a big company (haleon).
Buy Ecofenac instead. Same stuff but 100g für 7 bucks.
https://www.coopvitality.ch/de/p/ecofenac-sandoz-lipogel-10-mg-g-tb-100-g-5228819
Don’t buy big name brands. With medication, it’s usually better to focus on the active ingredients than the brand name. I buy the salt to flush my nose at Migros for 6.-, the brand stuff costs 35 at the pharmacy.
On photo from Brazil, it is 50g, on your screenshot it is 180g and different type (Pro XT vs Forte) — the latter one not sure what’s the difference.
(Obviously, charging Swiss clientele with higher wages, but make your comparison correct)
and the people working in the pharmacy make how much in Brazil compared to Switzerland? every single globally sold product is adjusted in price to every country. while some of it is purely to pump margin, economics aren‘t always that simple. Medicine tends to be unreasonably more expensive here, but the act of selling something is already worlds more expensive here than it is in Brazil or basically anywhere in the world. at the end of the day, 39.- is much less for the average Swiss than 12.- is for the average Brazilian.
Totally agree. It makes sense that some things are more expensive because of import fees, transportation, etc. But for stuff like this, no excuse.
(Just FYI, “fabric” in English means cloth. The word for where things are manufactured is “factory”.)
Because shipping costs close to nothing but a pharmacy’s rent and the salaries for employees are one order of magnitude higher than in Brazil
Better example: Germany: Ibuprofen 400 mg (noname) (50 pieces) =3.49€ – Sun Apotheke (noname) 10 pieces =9.59 CHF (10.35€) – That is almost 15 times the price!!!
I live in Nyon, there’s nothing that bothers me more than seeing a product made in the factory from Nyon being sold cheaper in neighboring France whilst I pay double in the town it’s manufactured in..
So you think that renting a drugstore in Switzerland and paying the employees a good salary is as cheap as doing the same thing in Brazil + shipping costs?
“Ohh, but the salaries in Switzerland are higher…”
Waiting for this bullcrap excuse