It's more than healthcare, the entire social security net is far more extensive in Germany than in the US. This also affects the part about COVID, one really im

It's more than healthcare, the entire social security net is far more extensive in Germany than in the US. This also affects the part about COVID, one really important measure here was to essentially have the government continue to pay people in jobs that would otherwise have been lost during the pandemic. That was an already existing measure that was expanded during the pandemic.