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Billionaires for Wealthcare Guerrilla Musical: Public Option Annie

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WASHINGTON, DC., Oct. 23. Billionaires for Wealthcare singers delivered a spontaneous, guerrilla musical, "Public Option Annie at the final day of the AHIP conference for the private insurance industry, today.

AHIP's website explains, "America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans.

Covering the songsters, Rachel Maddow said, "We begin tonight with the single most unexpected turn of events yet in the fight over health reform.

CBS News reported, "Insurance industry pollster Bill McInturff was giving a speech Friday when he was interrupted at first with cheers of praise from people who seemingly belonged at the conference, given their business attire. The cheers turned into a song about the ˜public option,' or government-run health insurance, performed to the tune of ˜Tomorrow' from the musical Annie."

On their site, Billionaires for Wealthcare call themselves "a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, HMO lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others profiting off of our broken health care system. We'll do whatever it takes to ensure another decade where your pain is our gain. After all, when it comes to health insurance, if we ain't broke, why fix it? www.billionairesforwealthcare.com

Downloadable signage on their site includes, "Let them eat Advil and "Nothing says ˜freedom' like denying claims.

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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