Korean Health Care

One pleasant upside to living in Korea is the health care system, or at least it sure seems that way after my first trip to a doctor. At home I'd go to the doctor, tell them my symptoms, they might listen to me breathe or something, and then I'd go get a prescription filled. When my doctor first sent me for a battery of tests for asthma it took 6 months to make all the appointments and get results, and was very expensive. I had to redo all of those tests. It took about 2 hours and cost about $40 or so. The prescriptions (same ones) I would get filled at home for $90 (crappy insurance plan) cost about $14 to get filled here. I'm amazed at how fast, efficient, and seemingly smart the health care system is here, and I look forward to a day where we might have one just as easy to use at home.