Canada and the U.S

There is so much here that gets taken for granted, that .. I think when all this is said and done, we'll be able to take a step back and laugh at some of the things.

This if course is a new process for me, I've never gone through any of this. However, for Shari, it is something she's gone through, just in a different country. She asks me a lot about how we should do things as far as booking an appointment and such, and most of the time my response is: "I don't know, go to a clinic, get a referal?' 'Go to the hospital, they tell you what to do?' Etc etc. To which she states is rediculous, as why would you go to the hospital to get a referal for something that is so obvious.

Yet in almost every case, that's been how it works. I've concluded, that our health care system in Canada, is dumby proof - but completely non-cost effective, as we are finding out first hand. Everything requires two appointments pretty much. Which is fine, if you don't have to pay for those appointments. Not very fun when you do. But leads me to dwell on how much our health care system could save, if they'd just allow people to call specialists directly to make appointments for obvious things, rather than requiring a referral for everything.

Maybe after this is all said and done, and I've finished writing my book on the immigration process, I'll send my book to parliament and they can save a few million a year, just by taking out the middle man in the health care system.