There are probably a lot of ways to complicate that transaction to make it less obvious that I'm making a choice in consuming a flu shot now to probabalistically avoid a day of misery later, but it's very not obvious that that would improve outcomes or systemic costs.
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That's still around double the private cost in the UK, interestingly. And it's one of the few cases where competition actually drives prices down (along with travel vaccines).
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It is about 2X what it would be in Tokyo, too, but a) they had it in stock and three places in Tokyo didn't and b) if I'm napkin mathing what their cost structure is it's basically all down to the wage differential for the medical professional's utilization.
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And one of the very, very few instances in US healthcare where, "How much will X procedure cost?" can actually be asked and answered. Yes, flu shots are a _relatively_ good experience in the US and yet, many Europeans will still respond to this thread with, "$41? Seriously?!"
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Six to ten euros in France. But paid back 60% by social security (more with private insurance).
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a nice thing at Google is that they bring a bunch of nurses and doctors in and do them production line style: walk in, get jabbed, keep working. No insurance check or anything.
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Cloudflare did this too; sadly it was so late in the season I got sick the day before....
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That still seems startlingly expensive.
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£7 here in the UK in a supermarket, if you are paying cash.
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We've done them at work the last two years. The nice thing is that it's timed with CDC recommendations for when to get them, so nobody needs to remember when that is.
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