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COVID-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines (Jan 2021)
- azalemeth 5y agoOne thing that interested US readers might like to do if they routinely take a prescription drug is to see how much the UK's NHS pays for that drug, by searching for it in the British National Formularly and using a proxy/Google cache to get around the geo IP blocking. It's amazing how the same drug can vary in cost by a factor of ten or more. This article at least explains why (sort of).
- refurb 5y agoThose are list prices for the NHS, not net. Usually doesn’t matter for generics in the UK but it does for branded, which have confidential prices in both countries. You can sometimes estimate true prices through other data. As an example, the US paid less for hepatitis C drugs than the major European countries, despite the US having lost prices that were almost double. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/hepatitis-c-drug-cost-lower-in-us-than-other-countries https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/hepatitis-c-drug-cost-low...
- 988747 5y agoIsrael was the best of course: they got the vaccines they did not pay for, before the EU who did pay :) https://www.insider.com/pfizer-halts-shipment-of-covid-vaccines-after-israel-doesnt-pay-2021-4 https://www.insider.com/pfizer-halts-shipment-of-covid-vacci...
- vmception 5y agoThe chosen people, for experimentation