[byecancer21]

This mirrors my personal experience. To make a treatment decision, against the advice of my local doctors, that was key to survival I relied on US research.

To compare costs: For an extremely rare cancer, total cost of treatment was 100k EUR in Germany, whereas US patients report case costs of >2m USD.

Part of these savings stem from the public healthcare system not providing adequate treatment, while strictly necessary for a reasonable chance of survival in this case. What happens in Germany then is the amazing doctors do stuff anyway (if you can convince them), bill whatever they can, and write off the remainder. Profits from privately insured patients make up for this shortfall here.

Public healthcare being adequate is somewhat of a myth, for Germany at least.