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I have paid as low as $8 in Northern Cyprus
and $180 in London for a PCR test
What is the real cost ?
Why are governments allowing extortion?It maybe excessive or it simply be subsidized in some places in an effort to make people do it more often. Hard to judge the cost with emergency operations. We don’t know how much a company spent setting up a new facility in a hurry, or even to develop a test.
If you think the price is excessive, consider it a business opportunity, and start your own cheaper.
Why were you frolicking in Cyprus?
(Attn: Syag, this is not to be taken seriously.)
Conspiracy!
again, open another lab. Or someone else will.
There’s a sucker born every minute, and many of them are: 1) working for the government which “buys” the tests and/or requires people to buy them; 2) in deathly fear of COVID since they confuse it with smallpox or plague
The cost per test is de minimis. The “price” is what a person needing the test is willing to pay at a specific time and location. If you are at home and sneezing and your elderly shver is coming over for shabbos dinner, you might want the comfort of a negative test result. For that you might be willing to pay $25-$35. If you have to fly out to London for a client meeting or Zurich for an expensive ski trip and the airline suddenly requires a negative test result within 24-48 hours of departure, then most would willingly pay upwards of $150-$200 for a test where results are guaranteed on time.
Loshen, most people here seem to be Colonials, and we are way behind Europe in free testing. My understanding is that in many places, like Cyprus and others, these tests are all over the place, free or very cheap. At the tax-payers cost, of course. In the case of the airport, would they let you bring your own test that you can pre-order or do they force you to take and pay to a specific company? If the latter, this is not right, and, at minimum, they should have an open bid for the job. That said, it may be that the bid will end up with a high price – possibly, they need to rent a place, train people, send urgently to the lab to ensure quick turn-around, maybe using more robust or multiple tests.
Should airport tests be free? Maybe not. Most flyers are either vacationing or doing business, so they should pay for it, not taxpayers.
I paid $70 in Israel
AAQ. Unlike the vaccines, the government did not enter into agreements with the PCR test providers that would provide a fixed number of their tests at a negotiated price. Instead, Congress mandated that testing be covered by insurance under defined circumstances, and the insurers negotiate with the test providers as to reimbursement rates. The government does not have authority to set prices for Covid tests, absent very specific circumstances.
Local to me PCR tests are no charge, with or without ins. Self tests are all readily available and appear to be reasonably priced from what I’m hearing from friends, neighbors and community members. Most folks in this area have also received our four free tests in the mail.
Gadol, “did not enter” until recently, while Europe was able to figure it out. This is food for thought for you about difference between gov lead by a businessman or by a politician. Biden made an announcement about test availability in the middle of omicron surge and they started arriving shortly after the crisis seems to pass. the insurance approach (again, only from Jan 2022) is cumbersome and is not a very good incentive. The goal is to have low-informational population to use these tests when they need them. It got to be simple, not with a promise of filling out forms later.
Loshen, it sounds like encountered this singularly in one of the busiest airports of the world, and also at the height of Omicron.
I googled right now, you can get PCR at Heathrow for 60 GBP next day and 80 same day; 4 hour! for 120. Maybe you should arrange the next day test?
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