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Our experience with the German Healthcare system was very good. My husband saw an actual orthopedic doctor, someone you wouldn't see in an urgent care in the US. He got a very high quality boot for his foot (the orthopedic surgeon we saw in the US was stunned by how great it was).I can second your praise of the German health care system. It works very well here even if many people complain about it. It is much worse and much more expensive elsewhere in the world. My wife got sick in Las Vegas years ago and we had to go to an emergency room in one of the local hospitals. The first question that we were asked was how were we going to pay the bill, credit card, or cash.
We were a bit panicked in the beginning because they said without being Germans or from Europe we would pay cash and it would be very very expensive. We had about 300 euro between us and a card that limited us to withdrawing about 250 euro a day. When the nurse who spoke English (we were in a part of Germany where not many English speaking people go) told us the price, we laughed, bease we were thiking US "very expensive" and figured it wold be a thousand dollars or more. We had enough money on us to cover the urgent care, the boot, crutches, the taxi cab, and still had 100 euro left.
We were very happy with our experience, and were all done in less than 3 hours- getting from the hotel to the urgent care, waiting time, xrays, seeing the doctor, figuring out how to pay, traveling to the medical supply store across town, getting the boot and crutches, figuring out how to pay, and getting back to the hotel.
I found the Germans to be some of the nicest people.