What they will say....is that they built the hospitals to handle a certain number of consumers. Well....the larger hospitals can fill the beds, and the smaller ones can’t. If you have a choice of a bigger name German hospital or the local one in your community (300 beds)....you will select the big name hospital. End of the story.
Across Germany, there’s an effort underway to shut down roughly one-third of all hospitals in the next five years. Part of the issue is that regional states aren’t funding the public hospitals at the rate they used to.
Just raise taxes. ;)