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Orthopantomogram cost 22.90 € in France, a MRI start at only 69€

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Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:22

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I have done one last Saturday…for 22.90€ in France

An Orthopantomogram (OPG) or Dental Panoramic Radiograph (DPR), also known as a "panorex", is a panoramic scanning dental X-ray of the upper and lower jaw. It shows a two-dimensional view of a half-circle from ear to ear. An OPG relies on tomography i.e. images of specific radiographic planes are taken to make up the larger panoramic image. [WikiPedia]

I then ask what a MRI Magnetic resonance imaging cost, only 69€ TTC in Mulhouse (France 25km from Swiss Borders)

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!