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Health and Insurance

Most Germans are members of the government health system (GKV), and for all employees it is mandatory. It is a statutory regulation. You can choose one health insurance out of about 103 health insurances in Germany.

Read more about the statutory health insurance regulations:

https://www.gkv-spitzenverband.de/english/statutory_health_insurance/statutory_health_insurance.jsp

Here you find the list of German Health insurances (in German only):

https://www.gkv-spitzenverband.de/service/krankenkassenliste/krankenkassen.jsp?pageNo=1#krankenkassen

Finding doctors

If you are looking for doctors with foreign language skills, you can use this official search engine that also filters for this case: https://www.kvmv.de/service/arztsuche/

First enter "field of experience" and "place". Then the list of doctors is shown. On the right side you can choose different options - also spoken foreign languages.

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