In Germany , health care insurance is mandatory for the majority of the population Statutory Health Insurance . Their employers are required to transfer a fixed percentage of the employee ' s wage to the health insurance ie . sickness funds which can be freely chosen by the employee among 130 suppliers . The big difference in America is that the employer typically chooses the insurance for you . You might have a few options which can raise or lower your premiums , but it ' s from one supplier . What we desperately need is a highly active individual market . Even if you had to find insurance on your own you probably have less than a dozen choices of provider in any given state . <| sep |> So you cant ping your pi but ssh at it ? You should atleast be able then to do sftp in Filezilla and uploaddownloads files this way because it is the same connection like if you use ssh . Are you behind any Proxy ' s ? I for example cant ping the ip adress from my server inside the school network but can easly connect via ssh . This is because the ping command goes over a port that is protectet via the firewall but the ssh port 21 in my case is not so it works . Maybe try to ping some other IP Adresses just to make sure you can even ping to direct ip adreses .