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Except he was talking about the Netherlands.

Health care in Germany is a not-for-profit endeavour and is strictly controlled by the law, with ministry of health oversight.

It sounds like you read that off the government shill brochure.

The decline in public healthcare quality has nothing to do with the lack of government oversight but it's due to the lack of funding and personel (which is also funding related). Ask any overworked healthcare worker in the public system.

It’s a lack of personnel because the population pyramid is going from a triangle to a rectangle. This is what that transition does to the labor force.

People are dying friendo, please wise up.

When was healthcare in Germany not private?

More than 10 years ago

From what I've read, it has always been a heavily regulated private system (which is mostly non-profit in practice).