More health care

It takes a bit to get used to a new system anywhere, most likely. But coming from a country that deals with healt insurance, and making sure they get their copays, etc, it was quite a different thing to see how things are in Sweden. I had an appointment last week with the ob clinic and walking in there, there is no place to let them know that you are there. So you just sit down and wait, with the other people in the waiting area, and look at the rows of doors. At some point someone came and called my name, and I got up and walked in. I was sitting in a office with an ob nurse practitioner, and talked about my background, my information and what I came there for. She wrote out a prescription for me, and told me it was done. The prescription is online, and I didn't need anything from her. I could walk into any pharmacy and hand them my id, and they would just find it, print it, get it and I would pay for it. That was it! Any pharmacy, in any part of the country. Granted, the country is small, compared to what I was used to, and we live in a country where socialism roams. Which means that lots of things have systems, and you exsist in the system, with just your name and number. But still, it's 2010. There should be a system for eluminating paperwork in the US as well, and have it all being emailed off, so that anyone could pick it up at any place. You would think!