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Speaking from personal experience, which of course is just anecdote I know, is that in Germany healthcare workers are forever trying to persuade people to check in to a hospital while in many other countries staff are trying to think of any excuse to keep people out.

Germany has a huge medical industry. If you walk into a doctor's surgery there, they'll probably have numerous, German-made medical apparatuses there that they're keen to use, so you'll have tests and whatnot done really quickly, even if you're on state insurance (although, admittedly, there is a considerable difference between private and state insurance medical care). That's not even to mention the pharmaceutic industry, which likewise is very big. Also, there are basic quotas of certain standard operations that German junior doctors have to carry out before they can be promoted, so you're much more likely to get an operation on that basis. While, obviously, medical care is good for people, it's also good for the economy.