I lived there ongoing until I was in my 20's snowflake.
Sure you did.
There is NOTHING to envy you brain dead buffoon.
How about longer life expectancies? Lower infant mortality rates? Lower childhood mortality rates? Lower maternal mortality rates? Lower obesity rates? Lower rates of infectious diseases? Lower rates of crimes associated with untreated mental illness? Lower suicide rates? Lower per capita healthcare spending? Lower rates of medical bankruptcy?
Do you think those things are not to be envied? Is it better to spend more on healthcare, live sicker lives, and die younger? If that's what you think, then we have a fundamentally different understanding of life.
Germans pay more for EVERYTHING
How much do they spend, per capita, on healthcare? How about us?
They have miserable dental
What makes you think that?
EVERYTHING costs more there
I understand that as a person who has never actually been to Germany, you're stuck just parroting lines from Fox News. However, it's not actually true. Health care services and drugs (among other things) cost less in Germany. Facts matter. Learn some:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/why-medicine-is-cheaper-in-germany/371418/
Their healthcare system is currently bankrupting a country
In what sense? Keep in mind that gross government debt in Germany is about 64.137% of GDP, according to the IMF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt
By comparison, in the US, it's about 107.785%.
So, which one is going bankrupt?
While I was down here I had a high school friend visit who was basically wheel chair bound waiting for her hip replacement. She finally got it about a year later.
Your imaginary friend would have been in a far better position than an American counterpart. As a Canadian citizen, if you don't want to wait, you have the same option every American has to pay out of pocket for something faster. By comparison, American citizens don't have the option the Canadians have of waiting and getting something affordable. If an American can't afford to pay out-of-pocket for a hip replacement (and isn't covered by socialized medicine by way of a military background over being 65 or older), that may mean being stuck in a wheel chair indefinitely.
Gotta love that Nationalized system eh snowflake? STFU
Hahahaheheehaa! You just can't help yourself. Time and again, when you ask a question, your cowardice just takes over and you can't help but try to hide from an answer by telling the other person to shut up. Do you see why everyone thinks you're a joke?
How much innovation and ingenuity comes from Government controlled systems?
Often quite a bit, as you know. It was, for example, government-controlled systems that split the atom, put men on the moon, built the interstate highways, and created the foundation of the Internet. At this very moment, we're using HTML, which came from innovations pioneered at the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- a system controlled by 22 governments.
Did you honestly not know those things, or was this just feigned ignorance?
Here's the list so far; Canada (4 Provinces) Germany, Holland, England, France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Greece (parents lived there for a while), Thailand, Cambodia, Mexico, Barbados, Antigua, Grenada, Aruba, Curacao, Saint Marten, Martinique, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Most of French Polynesia including Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Raiatea and Tahiti.
Now tell us the places you've actually been, because you've got to know everyone on this forum knows better.