Its already here, even for paying patients.
I had to intimidate the nurses to get morphine for my burnt daughter; she was literally going crazy with itching from her grafts and, apparently, the nurses were too busy to do basic pain management. And they wouldn’t respond to my wife or the nurse call button.
My wife had to stay with her in the hospital constantly for months to make sure she got proper care. She had to do the diaper changes herself, or the nurses would have left in filth for hours; and we had to buy our own diapers. She had to develop her own care routines to supplement the hospital care (Invest in manuka honey - that stuff is miraculous!). They left staples in my daughter’s head after they sent her home - we had to go back to have them removed.
There were parts of that hospital that were well run, and others that really sucked. I don’t know how different floors in the same hospital can be so different.
I really shudder to think what would have happened if the government had been running that hospital...
I can't address the rest of your experience, but I can tell you that a good possibility for why your daughter had to go through pain and not get morphine is that so many health care professionals are afraid to properly treat pain due to the War On Drugs. Everyone's afraid if they give someone as much pain medication as they actually need that the DEA will put them in jail. It's a crime, but there's nothing for it.
FWIW - I'm no long haired dope smoking libertarian. It's just that I've seen this before with friends of mine, and I think it's criminal that they can't get the relief they need.
as we speak, my wife is in the hospital - she was very nearly gone friday when her heart stopped. fortunately she was already in the hospital when this ocurred, and they were able to save her after a horrifying weekend. She’s onthe mend now, thanks in part to her superior insurance, which she made provision for, and prioritized all her life. if some beauracrat had to second guess her doctor, and the excellent team who did the actual saving,she wouldn’t be here today.