> The price of this is a very large bureaucracy regulating all this and of course costing quite some money that does not go into actual medical treatment. I st

> The price of this is a very large bureaucracy regulating all this and of course costing quite some money that does not go into actual medical treatment. I still think it is smaller than the bureaucracy of the insurance companies in the US. I do not know about Germany specifically but the US has perhaps the largest administrative overhead in the world.