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Protesters Serenade Health Insurance Confab With Ode to Public Option

October 23, 2009 By fieldscornerguy

AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them – with song.

• AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests spend nearly $5 million per week undermining real health care reform, including a public option.

• AHIP has resorted to out-right lying and scare tactics to block health care reform. They sent letters that lie to seniors about what health care reform means for Medicare, and they issued a report on the costs of health care reform legislation that is so misleading even the reports embarrassed authors distanced themselves from the way AHIP used their work.

• Every year, 45,000 people die because they cant get access to the health care they need. Yet AHIP continues to stand in the way of health care reform that would provide coverage to millions of Americans because the industry is more concerned with protecting profits than saving lives.

Lyrics to “Public Option Annie”

(to the tune of “Tomorrow” from Annie)

SINGER #1:  No, thank you!

FOR KILLING THE PUBLIC OPTION

AND BLOCKING ANY HOPES OF ITS ADOPTION

THANK YOU, SIR!

SINGER #2: Sure,

BUT WHAT ABOUT COMPETITION?

IT’S AN OLD AMERICAN TRADITION

OR SO I’VE HEARD?

SINGER #1: Meh.

SINGER #3:

WHEN OLYMPIA SNOWE

SAID NO,

IT CROAKED

Right?

SINGER #2:

NO, THE OPTION’S NOT DEAD

SINGER #3:

OR RED!

SINGER #1:

EXPLAIN!

Who let these people in here?

SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS:

IF WE GET A PUB-

LIC OPTION

WE CAN SNIFF OUT WASTE

JUST LIKE A DACHSUND

COSTS COME DOWN!

SINGER #1: Hey, those “costs” are my profits!

SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS:

THE OPTION

THE OPTION

THE PUBLIC WANTS OPTIONS

WITHOUT IT,

IT’S A GIVEAWAY

SINGER #1: Exactly. To us. Am I in the right room?

THE OPTION

THE OPTION

THE PUBLIC WANTS AN OPTION

SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS:

OR REFORM IS A CORP’RATE GIVE-A-WAY!

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  1. judy-meredith says

    October 24, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Other Professional Singers in political action.  

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