Scene 5: Just a High Monthly Premium Helps the Medicine Go Down

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[DEB FISCHER enters]

DEB FISCHER:

Now I love guns just as much as the next patriot, but you boys know that's not the only thing that makes this country free. Why capitalism gives us a choice in our health insurance, instead of that scary socialist healthcare. Without a multitude of for profit health insurance companies, all of our citizens would be lazy freeloaders—(exaggerated aside) instead of just the liberal ones.

In every job that deals with health

There is an element of wealth

[To the tune of "Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins.]

YOU FIND THE DOUGH AND SNAP!

YOUR CARE'S A GAME

AND EV'RY TEST--BOTH SMALL AND LARGE

GETS ADDED TO YOUR CHARGE

A COST! A FEE! IT'S VERY CLEAR TO SEE THAT

A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN-WOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

JUST A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

See here:

AN AGENT WORKING ON HIS QUEST

HAS VERY LITTLE TIME TO REST

WHILE HE REVIEWS AND THEN DENIES THE CLAIMS

THOUGH SOME WILL SAY THAT IT'S UNFAIR

BUT THAT'S AMERICAN HEALTHCARE

HE KNOWS LOAN SHARKS WILL KEEP OUT KARL MARX

[The rest of the GOP SENATORS enter and act as the CHORUS, some are holding large handmade signs with various health insurance company logos on them.]

ALL:

FOR A DISPROPORTIONATE COPAY HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN-WOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

JUST A DISPROPORTIONATE COPAY HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

[The CHORUS dances with their homemade logos.]

DEB FISCHER:

Let's have a big thanks to our sponsors: UnitedHealth! Blue Cross Blue Shield! Aetna! Cigna! Humana! Centene! Kaiser Permanente! Molina! Elevance! Aflac! Don't you love the freedom of choice?

THE PATIENTS SEEKING OUT APPOINTMENTS

FROM ANY DOCTOR IN TOWN

NEVER STOP TO THINK HOW THEY SHOULD INSTEAD SAVE

BECAUSE THE ILLNESS THAT THEY BRING

ALAS IT WAS PRE-EXISTING

(Small laugh) There's no tricking insurance companies!

DEB FISCHER: (BEN SASSE)

AND HENCE (AND HENCE),

THEY FIND (THEY FIND)

THEIR CLAIM HAS BEEN DECLINED

DEB FISCHER:

FOR A 10K DEDUCTIBLE HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

DEB FISCHER & BEN SASSE:

JUST A 10K DEDUCTIBLE HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

JOHN KENNEDY:

SO JUST A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

RICHARD SHELBY:

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

DEB FISCHER:

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

ALL:

JUST A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

DEB FISCHER:

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

ALL:

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

FOR A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

MEDICINE GO DOWN

JUST A HIGH MONTHLY PREMIUM THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

DEB FISCHER:

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

ALL:

IN THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY

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