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The Germans know how to manage things properly.Not a cheap system. Everyone who works full-time in a company has to pay in. You pay 50% and the company pays the other 50% of the rate.
It's a good business too and the insurances in general became very rich over the times, but at least everyone can afford to go to a doc/hospital if necessary. Nice side effect.
It started in 1883 for workers in the industry, mining, railroad, etc.
The NHS is the UK has been so badly looked after by successive governments that they weren't prepared for a pandemic, despite the threat of one looming for years. Health care is still free, but it's been a 2nd rate healthcare for years now.
The NHS budget gets reduced all the time, doctors and nurses are overworked, PPE isn't available, waiting lists are manipulated because the government puts pressure on hospitals to reduce numbers or face being rated poorly. It's a shitshow.
The way it's been installed into the Brits that it's 'Our NHS' because the taxpayer funds it, means that anything that threatens it's existence is used to spread panic and makes people do what Boris tells them. People forget that it was Boris and the halfwits who came before him who got the NHS into this mess in the first place.