Swiss Pharmacy high costs of generics: 1000% prices increase

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Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:49

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Amoxicillin is used in the treatment of a number of infections including: acute otitis media, streptococcal pharyngitis, pneumonia, skin infections, urinary tract infections, salmonella, lyme disease, and chlamydia infections.

I have to do some dental work done, and this is how I came across the following outrageous prizes in Switzerland:

Price per pill is 10 yes TEN times more expensive in Switzerland than in France! Yes that a

1000% prices increase and not the 40% you hear in Swiss newspapers!

Switzerland's Health Care System  is DEEPLY BROKEN and controlled by 3 monopoly

CH: references 2010 + Swiss HealthCare System + http://www.civitas.org.uk/nhs/download/switzerland.pdf
FR: References 2012 + Private Health Insurance in France http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/35/11/30455292.pdf 2500 pages / page 18 “Mutuelles represent roughly 60% of the total market. Non-profit provident institutions and private insurance companies (including both for-profit and non-profit carriers) split the remaining 40%”

Conclusions

Never Never buy any medicament in Switzerland, go to France/ Germany by Car, offer you a restaurant and a day abroad and it will be still cheaper!

For the skeptical out there I have all bills and boxes to prove this!

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