Originally Posted by
IanR
Many BP pills commonly prescribed here in the UK have been around for years and are out of patent - hence very, very cheap (Ramipril, according to my chemist, is around $2 for a months supply) so they shouldn't cost the NZ health service very much and ought hardly eat into the $25,000 life time allowance immigration apparently set.
Originally Posted by
sks
Costs me $3 for a 3-month supply here in NZ -- the charge to have the prescription rewritten is 6x that (still cheap, no matter how you look at it).
Okay, I'm a little bored today...
Just so nobody gets the wrong idea from the above: ramipril is not available in New Zealand! We have many other fine ACE inhibitors [cilazapril being the most popular, which is not approved in the US].
@Brigid: Would you believe you can't get hydrochlorothiazide in NZ, either (at least as a single ingredient). Bendrofluazide is the most commonly used thiazide diuretic, which also is not approved in the US.
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