Yes, Portugal, Spain, South of France, UK are all great options
Try Iceland Once you become a citizen. You go on their socialized med. if hospitalized it would be clods to 300K per day. Which is equal to about 2.35 US.
They all speak English and at least two Luther languages. Youâll never learn Icelandic Only thing expensive there is gas.
And you can buy insulin cheap and make money by mailing it to people stuck in America paying full price.
Put ads on craigs list coast to coast lol
Maybe I should move to Belize ! How much for that villa and how close is the pharmacy and post office ?
Sorry the risk is not worth the reward. Would not like to face extradition charges living in another country and do want to be able to freely visit US from overseas to see my family and grand children from time to time and not from behind bars. If you want to smuggle drugs into US, I think you will find some much more profitable options.
I am not messing with the cartels, no thanks but anyway the Canadian pharmacies donât get in trouble for mailing it here why would I ?
I am not doing it anyway but obviously putting the idea out there for others and entertaining discussion.
Look at those numbers buy for $1000 what sells for $10,000 It should be possible to triple your money on every transaction.
Canada pharmacies have gotten trouble for shipping drugs into the US and many have stopped sending in even insulin. On top of that insulin can go bad if it sits in customs for too long so you will find that the Canada pharmacies that do ship into the US will not help you out if the insulin you receive is bad and they do that in violation of US law.
I am sure you can get away by having a friend send you some insulin from Canada a couple of times or I could sell you insulin I bought there and legally brought back but it is illegal to do that and if caught, the consequences are not worth the reward. Federal and state agencies do follow CL and conduct sting operations so not for me.
What about Medicare part D? Doesnât that cover insulin if you are on MDI?
Iâm on MDI and do pretty well with it. I wasnât planning on going on a pump, ever. Iâd like to keep doing what Iâm doing.
Retirement is still a few years away for me but Iâm already getting concerned. My plan was to get part D, but I now wonder if thatâs going to be enough.
Wasnât planning to move to another country either.
Is there anybody out there who is able to mange with part D?
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Yes, I am on Part D. Many people donât realize that insurance is just a drug dealing middleman so the real problem is the cost of the insulin which under part D quickly currently puts you in the donut hole making you actually fully pay for the real cost of the insulin + the insurance markup. I have not moved to another country but have been driving and buying my insulin in Canada because I buy roughly $8000 at US list price at a time in Canada and it costs me $800 which is far cheaper than my Part D insurance premiums + Co Pay. That way I take a very low cost ($14/Month) Part D supplemental insurance. Each person is different so a lot depends on how much you medication you use to determine best, most affordable way to go.
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The FDA allows personal importation of up to a 90-day supply of prescription drugs (including insulin) with some fairly obvious and reasonable restrictions. The full details are at this link.
I read one report that the Canadian export mail order pharmacy market is valued at $1B/year
The key key is finding a pharmacy you can trust (there are some shady actors out there). Get a recommendation from your doctor if possible. I get my anti-seizure meds from Canada. In the US Iâd pay upwards of $35,000/year. From Canada I pay $3000/year and itâs perfectly legal for both myself and the pharmacy.
Itâs a great point about shipping risks with insulin. All the packages must go through customs and itâs possible theyâll get held up. Sometimes my seizure meds will be in transit for 2 weeks. Most of the pharmacies Iâve checked with wonât ship insulin. Others will, and I donât know how (or if) they address the issue.
The online ones I have researched say if the insulin is a problem, it is your problem, not theirs which is why I drive to the border and pick mine up. Funny, the pharmacy I use is no more than about 800 ft. from the border and it takes me about 2 1/4 hours to drive up to the border from MA.
In general, Iâd say, the more benefits a country provides to residents, the harder it is to obtain residency. So, lets say you wanted to go to the Nordic countries, where there are lots of diabetics. Sweden looks like five years, as a frame of reference.
Be aware that I have purchased insulin in both China and France and I paid exactly the same as I do in America. The US insurance agreements held. Note: I went to Expat hospitals to obtain at their pharmacy.
Iâm too far from the border to take advantage of the drive in approach. But a funny story about Tandem -
Last week I was talking to the local Tandem rep about problems Iâm having using Fiasp with my T-Slim:X2. The conversation drifted into Fiasp costs. My insurance stopped covering it this year. She told me that because Tandemâs headquarters is in San Diego, some of their T1D employees (they have quite a few of them) drive the short distance to Mexico to get Fiasp. Hard to believe that even one of the major pump manufacturerâs insurance doesnât cover it!
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Not hard for me to believe. At some points, my wifeâs insurance wasnât very good and she is a health care professionalânamely a registered operating room nurse.
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Expat hospitals and their pharmacies are a huge ripoff but oftentimes can get US insurance companies to cover their claims or allow you reimbursement where if you go local insurance will not cover.
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Out of curiosity, what does a 10ml vial of FiASP cost in the USA?
List price online shows $275.58 for a 10ml vial, same as NovoLog, before any discounts
Itâs $20/vial more expensive than Humalog in Canada
= $56CA per vial ($42US)
hehehehe, Jim_in_Calgary. We are coming for them now, like a pack of wild dogs. It will take forever, but there is the start of progress here.
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