Is it permissible to sell surplus medicine—dispensed through mandatory health insurance—and benefit from its price?
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If you own the medicine, you are permitted to dispose of it through sale or other means. If the insurance is a prohibited commercial one, then your benefit from the medicine should be limited to the amount you paid in insurance premiums. Any excess should be disposed of by giving it to the poor and needy.
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