@vantablue Yeah, all medication prices (the one the public health system pays anyway, private insurers pay what the pharmacies charge, but then there are no chains in Austria) are public here. And the funny is spot checking with an American acquaintance what she is taking, yes the co-pay on her nice private insurance, even rather boring old stuff like Sertralin is higher than what our public health care system pays in total.
Funny this.
@vantablue Funny this, our "free market" prices (which are 3 decades after introducing the free market they are basically the same in all pharmacies everywhere here, before they were regulated too) are lower than the US co-pays on private insurance.
But then our "private healthcare" is actually freeloading on the public healthcare system: e.g. you might get your some out-patient procedure done, but if any emergency happens, it's a public air ambulance that med-evacs the "private patient".
@vantablue And private clinics locally tend not to keep expensive and "non-productive" departments like ICUs, so anything bad happens, the patients are transferred into the public healthcare system.