The problem with health insurance

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I recently ended up in the hospital for a three day stay. In a way, this angers me because the reason I was in the hospital is because of my health insurance. I take proton pump inhibitors and my doctor agreed after my last hospital stay that I needed a different medicine. He called in three different medicines. Each one of these were turned down for a different reason while the health insurance insisted that I could stay on the medicine I have been taking. I have been in and out of the hospital several times over the last few months with gastritis and internal bleeding of ulcers. Instead of covering the medicine I need, my health insurance company is instead paying for hospital stays which are much more expensive and would not be needed if they would simply cover the medicine I need. The power of insurance companies angers me because someone sits behind a desk who does not know me or my specific needs and decides that they have the power to decide whether or not I should be allowed to get better. They are not doctors but they determine whether or not a medicine is appropriate for us. I was sent a letter in which the insurance company said I needed a different medicine before the rejected medicine was covered so I contacted my doctor for the prescription that was mentioned and he ordered it. I then went to the pharmacy to pick it up after it had been preauthorized only to be told that the insurance company will not cover that medicine. It angers me that these companies can play a game with our health and we are only a pawn in it.