My 96 hour ordeal in getting a prescription for my 85 year old mom........

[Peace Patriot]

50. Thank you, mrmpa, for writing this up!

I've been there, too, at the point of fainting at the pharmacy window at the sudden and huge jumps in prices. Round and round and round on the phone. Round and round and round in the mails or between doctors and pharmacies or on the internet or reading 500 page booklets explaining my husband's, ahem, 'benefits.'

They are looting our love itself. Of course we do this. We have to. But nobody pays us for navigating this mindbogglingly complex system. Everybody in this frigging maze is getting a piece of us, including our unpaid labor!

And it isn't just drug looters. There are all kinds of ways we are getting screwed, including, for instance, the 20% of medical costs that Medicare doesn't cover! More insurance needed!--more mindboggling complexity, with AARP in on this racket. There is the Medicare PREMIUM that is now DEDUCTED from our Social Security checks (a very high premium) after we've paid into these systems all our lives. There are the denials of coverage, and limits on coverage, with both Medicare and private insurance. (For instance, my husband badly needs shoe inserts prescribed by his podiatrist. They are very expensive. Medicare covers them for one illness but not his illness!) There is the failure of Medicare to cover dentistry and eyeglasses--two of the most important health needs of the elderly. There are the unreal premiums and deductibles for young families and others for lousy, almost useless coverage.

In many cases, it is simply murder. There is no other word for it. Our health system is heartbreaking, exhausting and--and I think this is very important and intended--it prevents people from becoming politically active cuz they DO NOT HAVE THE TIME! They are running like mad in the new "hunger games"!

We love, we love, we love, and they have us spinning on a vicious, out-of-control merry-go-round because we love. And if a victim has no one who loves them, they sicken and die.

We're supposed to worship Obama and Clinton for this?!

That's what Clinton tells us. 'Don't even THINK about a decent, rational system that works well, and costs far less, in many developed countries! Don't even think about it! It's a fairy tale!'

Well, I'll tell you the fairy tale I've been been thinking about lately: Hansel and Gretel. We need to follow our bread crumbs back home to our real Democratic Party.