it is time to press your government for Resident based taxation and join the rest of the very world

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10. Partially true

It has first class and second class health care. First class is for "private" patients, who pay up front and get reimbursed (they hope!) by expensive insurance. Second class for everyone else, most of whom have some kind of employer or government backed insurance. A few hundred thousand have none at all. It's not automatic here. You have to take care of your own. Second class, is of course, relative. Although as a normal mortal, you can sometimes have to wait months for a doctor's appointment, when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, after the second operation, her chemo, radiation and post treatment rehab was great. Of course, if she had been treated quickly after the first operation instead of being put in the waiting cycle for months, the cancer might not have spread so far down her lymph nodes that all of the ones on her left side might not have had to be taken out during the second operation.

Germany is notorious among Germans for being unfriendly to children, although this is not universally so. My wife, however, had to fight tooth and nail for our elementary school to provide early afternoon supervision for families where both parents worked. Before that, the school sent eight year old kids home to empty homes and said "it's not our problem."

My brother in law also had a fatal glioblastoma at a young age. I'm all too familiar with how that goes. I'm sorry you had to deal with it.