I was at the pharmacy to buy my diabetes medicine the other day.
– I had to pay 3114,45 kr for three times the greece meet its target, and then asked the nice lady – as she used to be – if I would have the cheap.
I answered ’yes, I rather’, and she clicked on his screen and lamented: ‘we have not at home’.
– But actually, it did not matter, for the cheap medicine cost 3102 crowns, so I could have saved 12£. On a purchase of more than 3000 kr.
so begins Bear from in north Jutland, a letter to the editor to the nation! whether the price difference on the expensive and the cheap medicine. And if it’s even worth the effort to compare prices. Bear was quite angry when he was asked, and he would like to hear about, he is the only one who has it. His letter – as the head of the Danish medicines agency unit of Pharmacies and Reimbursement the answers below – continue namely as follows:
– I don’t know what it costs to manage the entire medication-price-system, but in my eyes and in my finances which is actually not very big, then it seems completely ridiculous.
– I could understand it if it was a savings of several hundred dollars, but when the difference between the cheap and expensive is 12,50, so I’m actually angry at my country.
– some months ago I could save 75 pennies on a package Panodil.
– If the whole of Denmark are built up on the way, so is there something completely wrong.
– The cheap drugs has anyone sent out of the EU, and return, so that it can be cheaper, and the entire hassle should you be, ending the Bear, who would like to have a little focus on medicines and also like to hear if you or someone you know has thought, that there is very little difference between the cheap and expensive medicine in the pharmacy.
Kim Helleberg Madsen, Head of the Danish medicines agency unit of the Pharmacies and Reimbursement, have read Bjærn letter, and his response to criticism sounds like this:
– I can well understand, that it immediately seems like a very small saving in your specific case.
– But in other cases there may be talk about that the expensive medication costing many times more than the cheapest, as prices can fluctuate a lot.
– the System is designed so that the companies themselves decide what their medication cost, and can change the price each 14. day.
– Then, the price is the same at all pharmacies in the whole country in 14 days.
– This means that the cheapest drugs in the starting point have whole sale in 14 days at a time.
the Pharmacy should provide the cheapest version of the medicine, as you were also. But it is also designed so that the citizen can choose a more expensive medication.
– the Purpose of the Danish medicinprissystem is to increase competition and keep prices down, so the citizens get their drugs as cheaply as possible, writes the Danish medicines agency, but what do you say?