Germany has a different setup than most EU countries: one can be insured privately or publicly. Public insurance costs are based on income. Private insurance c

Germany has a different setup than most EU countries: one can be insured privately or publicly. Public insurance costs are based on income. Private insurance costs are based on health/age etc. Moving from private insurance to public is almost impossible, as far as I know. To give you an idea, I recently switched to private insurance and cut my monthly cost by 50%.