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our fee-for-service healthcare's a bad joke
that makes insurers rich at our expense
providers do ok, but common folk
would only opt for this if we were dense
developed nations recognize vaccines
deliver the best value for our wealth
but here the drug-industrial machine
is optimized for profits, not for health
Joe Lieberman shot down Obama's plan
to keep his Hartford masters in the pink
the Big Insurers bought and owned their man
a contract on our blood, signed in their ink
while Clinton whines we're helpless in our plight
a hundred other nations got this right