For example, in Estonia the minimum you have to pay per month just to health insurance is 201.20 EUR and this barely covers anything except extreme injuries, so on top you add a private insurance :|
Estonia seems like a tax haven in comparison.
You can very much opt out from the "public system" in Germany. I'm privately insured.
Although I pay most of my urgent stuff in cash, and get it back later (not everything), because otherwise I have to wait 3 months + for a simple scan :/
Like Public health insurance being mandated, or the GIS.
That is a system I want to live in. Since the locust capitalists took over (11th January 1987!) it is going downhill though.
Of course I can afford one of best health care, for me, but I want a social system, not an asocial one.
I think that the downwards movement is more based in the population aging though.
And the reason I hate it, is literally because there is no opt out at all. Hell, I'd use the public option if there were an opt out because it works well enough for me.
Leading my own company I hate having to pay the Wirtschaftskammer a mandatory fee.
I don't need those lobbyists!
Yeah, from what I've read, they are pretty awful in terms of costs/benefits.
I am curious about the 300-500. If this is per house hold or per employed adult.