The Cruelty of the USA DON"T care system

My mother is, once again, without her needed pain killer.

She has a degenerative condition which causes excessive pain. She can hardly walk.

She needs her pain killer merely to have a level of bearable pain. The pain does not go away when she has her medication.

Yet, the doctor, knowing that, has now jerked her around--changed her scheduled appointment in an arbitrary, and (I would say) arrogant way.

And the default position of my mother's health insurance company is to DENY a request for medication.

Note well:  My mother is eighty-six years old.  Her problems won't go away.  Today or tomorrow.  She will only need that pain-killer more, not less.

So, when the Health Insurance Company (a for-profit, capitalist firm) requires that the doctor approve her request every six months (or whenever it is) this is a pointless extra wheel added to an already not-smoothly-functioning machine.

This extra requirement makes it easier for it to happen, as it has now happened now, that my mother is without pain relief----and is, therefore, quite simply miserable.

Would that there were a hell in which such doctors and insurance companies (their Wall Street owners) could burn in agony.  I dare say those pampered assholes couldn't bare half the pain my mother has endured without whining and screaming out.  But, unlike her, they would deserve it...........