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Vintor@retrolemmy.com 1 week agoOk, here’s what is subsidised, assuming you speak German:
verbraucherzentrale.de/…/alle-kassenleistungen-de…
Call that nonsense if you wish, I’m not going to enter into a discussion of that kind.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
So clearly you haven’t been to the dentist in Germany, or even read that very article you posted. Yes your 6-monthly checkup is covered, that’s great. But the subsidy for fillings in molars, for example, only covers amalgam fillings. Dentists don’t actually do those anymore, so you have to pay more than 100€ “extra” to get a resin one. The majority of other situations are similar to that. In the end, even though the rule says that medically necessary things are supposed to be covered, in practice they really aren’t.