When a person moves back to Germany after being abroad in the EU (e.g. Netherlands) long enough to have to insure themselves there and not be insured in Germany anymore, what determines if you can be insured in the statutory health insurance again or whether you can choose or have to be privately insured when coming back, before you take on any work again?
Reading the laws like SGB V $5 and $6 and similar for when you are required and allowed to be insured statutory or privately didn't lead me to an understanding how that relates to when you were not insured in Germany at all for a while and beginning insurance again.
Different people said it depends on whether the health insurance abroad was private or not (but how is this determined, e.g. the Netherlands is not a clear case for me since it is a mandatory insurance with benefits defined by the state but the insurers might be private? Is there some EU law that defines this?).
But others said that if you were insured with the statutory health insurance in Germany the most part of the last 5 years, then it doesn't matter if you were privately insured abroad before (relating to Vorversicherungszeit). They were maybe relating it to SGB V $9 (1) 1 though I am not sure if there is a similar thing somewhere else in the law.
I am also unsure if there are any time limits / deadlines that change the situation, as reading about the topic, I sometimes saw time limits in which you are allowed to choose the type of insurance, but not afterward.
