Public Option Annie

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.

Tell your Representative to Support the Public Option:
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/publicoption

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 hippies 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!

SINGER #1

Well, I've heard enough - my helicopter is parked in a handicap space.

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[anxiousmodernman]

Glad these people are acting up. It's time for the United States to join the civilized world by letting its citizens gain the security and demonstrated efficiency of a national health insurance plan.

[faithofthefoe]

Does the Consitution say we had to put a man on the moon? Or was that a states right issue? What specifically about Social Security separates it from the hundred other programs Congress enacts evey year? And if it is, as you say, un-Constitutional, why has no conservative at any time in the last 70 years managed to squelch it? We both know, there are people who would love to terminate it, so why haven't they canceled it on Constitutional grounds? Unless, I thought of it first....

[SpaceCowboy1218]

@whereismybailouttv is there a better medium to deliver the message? what's wrong with showtunes? What makes it great is the irony. the only way to get heard is to sing during a meeting of lobbyists. That's whats hillarious about the whole situation.

[NowThePeople]

I wonder if Dick Cheney would have gotten all of his heart surgeries if he was a private citizen? With his pre-existing condition he would have been DENIED! But nope my tax dollars pay for HIS health care and ALL the health care for ALL the politicians, but we the people suffer while they sit and laugh at us. Think about that the next time you get a bill from your insurance company. Greed is awful, and we are the victims. STOP THE REPUBLIACNS and TRUMP FROM REPEALING THE NEW HEALTH CARE BILL!

[TheMartian20]

You know the funny thing is, I was normally a healthy person, but this heal;thcare debate is really making me ill.

So fuck off Insurance lobbyists. SCREW YOU!

[whereismybailouttv]

No you wouldn't.

So the point is that I'm really disgusted that it's gone down to this level. Feeling really frustrated....

[whereismybailouttv]

We all know that to get the corporate MSM's attention, you have to shock them. And like Jesse Jackson told the late Arthur Ashe, sometimes you have to be even "arrogant".

But look at this clip. People are dying because of a lack of universal care. And what do we see? A Broadway show tune designed to get max. hits on You Tube.

The cast/protestors/whatever obviously care. But, would you see this in any other country in the world?

[iamthe1337est]

That was awesome.

[jarnocan]

They made a good point in a pleasant and concise way BRAVO! They knew they would not have much time, and they did get their point heard on the news etc. Many more detailed, factual pleas, REAL tragic stories etc. have fallen on relatively few ears. learn more? healthcareforamericanow  is a good org:)

[ObamaEqualsStupid]

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand Cardinal de Retz

[bobb666666]

@ObamaEqualsStupid No, they form opinions from infinitely reasonable, logical tour-de-force videos like "Young Obama Was Pure Marxist Socialist Serial Killer Who Liked To Rape Babies While Simultaneously Taking A Dump On The American Flag part 1".

[ObamaEqualsStupid]

do people actually form opinions using garbage videos like this?