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Now's the Time for We the People (Healthcare for All)

from Medicare / Healthcare for All! by Wickline Family and Friends

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NOW'S THE TIME FOR WE THE PEOPLE!

Health care for all and all for one
would someone please help me see
why it works all around the world
but won’t work for you and me?
I know healthcare is big business;
A big business that’s quite healthy
but does it care about your health
or making its investors wealthy?

So what if losing everything you own is just a hospital visit away?
Has putting profit before people become the American way?
Just like big oil, big drug, and big insurance all agree!
It’s all about the money. They don’t care about you and me!

(Chorus)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” NOW’S THE TIME!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way!

(Verse 2)
For every ill there is a pill for which we’re overcharged
except for one that brings relief for the hypocrisy at large!
From those who protect life religiously
from conception to a baby’s birth
then ignore its health, safety and welfare
once it’s born upon this earth!

(Bridge)
Children ARE being left behind as the pentagon spends more!
While millions have no health care it wastes billions waging war!
Corporate puppeteers pull the strings & chart the course
as puppet public servants sell us out without remorse!

(Chorus)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” Now’s the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way.

(Verse 3)
Now there those who truly believe you either have or you are had!
Right is wrong & wrong is right and the common good is bad!
They want to privatize, or profitize or corporatize our nation
and make our government of the people,
a government of the corporations!

(Chorus)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” Now’s the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way.
Let need, not greed, lead the way.

(Epilogue)
Seems welfare is a dirty word
when it helps the sick and needy
but rationalized when it’s disguised as
tax cuts, tax breaks, loopholes,
subsidies, buyouts & bailouts…...
for the rich and corporate greedy!!


Written by Bob Wickline/Cascade Mountain Music/ASCAP

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from Medicare / Healthcare for All!, released June 10, 2020

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