There is no program that is comparable to the Canadian program, but let me give you some examples. An example is health insurance. I said before that the family's health costs are paid up to 80%; for the remaining 20%, I have to pay for private insurance for my family from my salary. Also, for as long as I live, as a professional I will receive from the forces 80% coverage of my costs after my retirement until I die. The rest I have to pay from my private insurance program.
Costs for soldiers who are leaving the forces--for example, after 12 years of service as conscripts on time--are also covered up to 80%, but after they have left the forces, they must pay the money for the health insurance by themselves from their salaries.
Health insurance in Germany is mandatory for everybody. This money is directly taken away from the monthly salary that the boss is paying to his employees. Afterwards they are covered. The longer you are with a health insurance company, the lower the amount of money you have to pay in as a monthly rate. That is the reason our forces pay retroactively for the time he serves in the forces--for example, 12 years. The German forces pay those 12 years in advance for this guy, so that he is insured in the same way as he would be if he had started with mandatory health insurance, for example, at 18 years of age. He gets the same rates then.