Forgot to add to last post... A friend of mine is a pharmacist and checked with his supplier and was told the vaccine is €627 to buy so I think what the GP has quoted me above is very reasonable.
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Ok, before I saw Sunny's post! Wow, talk about creaming it. Where is the extra cost being added from?
Yet it's €250 in Australia? So who's making the massive profit; the drug company, the pharmacist or the doctor (or is it all three)?
The cost of a nurse giving an injection should be no more than €20. The doctor will need to talk to the parent for a few minutes before the first shot so I guess that's €50-€60 (easy money!). That's €110-€120 plus the vaccine... so what's the cost of the vaccine and why can't the HSE buy directly from the drug company instead of giving a big margin to the pharmacists?
This is our money, why do we not care how it’s spent.