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Real Health Care We Cry!
- Sung to
- Rye Whiskey
- Written by
- Monica Zucker
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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SING IT to the tune of Rye Whiskey
Chorus:
It’s health care, real health care,
Real health care we cry!
Single payer’s the only
Solution to fly.
Insurance ain’t health care—
It’s profits galore.
You pay all your money—
They always want more.
If you get anything
Worse than the flu,
Don’t bother applying—
They won’t cover you.
Insurers buy Congress
Which won’t hear our pleas.
We know that insurance
Won’t fix our disease.
Oh, give us real health care,
Not just for a few.
We’ll choose our own doctors
And hospitals, too.
Repeat Chorus
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Written by
Monica Zucker
For the
Seattle Gaggle