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In Russia all patients get their insulin for free thanks to mandatory health insurance (5.1% of your net salary additionally paid by employer). If for some rea
by gdy 5y ago
In Russia all patients get their insulin for free thanks to mandatory health insurance (5.1% of your net salary additionally paid by employer).
If for some reason you would want to buy insulin, it would cost you 2-12 usd per vial/cartridge (3ml x 100units)
A cartridge of most modern European or American rapid insulin costs 5 usd [0][1] and the most modern long or ultralong insulins cost 9-12 usd [2][3]. Russian own insulins cost 2-4 usd per vial/cartridge.
Do you know why the same companies charge you at least 10 times more than a Russian citizen?
I wander what are the 'huge problems with healthcare in America' if overpaying 10 times for insulin isn't one of them?
[0] https://apteka.ru/product/apidra-solostar-5e32673ae911440001b7636b/ https://apteka.ru/product/apidra-solostar-5e32673ae911440001...
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[2] https://apteka.ru/product/lantus-solostar-5e32673a3d4c470001e08f91/ https://apteka.ru/product/lantus-solostar-5e32673a3d4c470001...
[3] https://apteka.ru/product/tresiba-flekstach-609a3db8c93e31dd14f98e54/ https://apteka.ru/product/tresiba-flekstach-609a3db8c93e31dd...
- ddingus 5y agoWhat do unemployed Russians do for health care? Greets from curious person in the USA.
- Darmody 5y agoNot sure about Russia but where universal healthcare exists, you don't lose acces to it when you don't work/pay. They go do the doctor as they would normally do and when they start working again they'll start paying their share. That's how it is in Spain. Also if you don't work, you don't pay the drugs, at least some of them. But the subsidized part of the price depends on your income.
- ddingus 5y agoLooks like Russia covers a year solid for unemployed people. See reply above.
- gdy 5y agoHi there! They only need be registered as unemployed. The law [0] is in Russian but Google Translate does a good job [1], see 5.d Free medical care in Russia is far from perfect, of course -- sometimes you have to wait for a month for an ultrasonic scan, sometimes they give you Russian insulin instead of Danish, but they will save you from a heart attack, install a stent and provide with necessary medications for at least a year. [0] http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_107289/7e136daa780a2b64dd6976678206b3196fa2b54d/ http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_107289/7e136d... [1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_107289/7e136daa780a2b64dd6976678206b3196fa2b54d/ https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http:...
- ddingus 5y agoThanks! I hear about the EU a lot. It is nice to get some perspective from your part of the world. Cheers
- acover 5y agoIsn't this an example of monopoly pricing?
- gdy 5y agoI honestly don't know
- igorzx31 5y agoNobody pays list price in the US.
- steveklabnik 5y agoThis is not true.
- sumtechguy 5y agosort of true and sort of not. If you are on some 'plan' then you are mostly likely not paying list. Your insurance company usually has cut some sort of deal with the distribution company. Usually that 'deal' includes not telling you about their deal and showing you only list price. If you are not on a plan. Sometimes you can ask 'hey is there a no plan version' and sometimes they do have it. That can be hit or miss depending on who is working the register that day. If you are not on a plan and they say 'nope thats the price' then you end up in that category.
- steveklabnik 5y agoWhat was stated was "nobody pays list price," and as you said: you can end up in that category. Yes, many people do not, but some people do.