To take this baby totally off roads and since it's a research topic now wink
http://www.international.uni-hannover.de/krankenversicherung.html?&L=1
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As far as pre-existing conditions are concerned, you should obtain all necessary medicines in your home country, since pre-existing conditions are generally not covered by German health insurance and patients have to carry their own costs.
I just googled around a bit since I never had to think about it and that's what I found at the top of the search results. I don't know if there's more to this, but there seems to be at least a precedence. It it didn't look like it's just private insurance but rather the regular public health care as far as non-citizens are concerned wave Michael

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