The Wizard of Oz and PBS on Healthcare Scene one

A play:

Healthcare Reform? Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.

[The scene opens with PUBLIC facing the Congress and the Healthcare Bill.]

(Public): [Chanting] Lobbyist, Republicans and Democrats, Oh My!  Socialism, Doctors and the Congressional Budget Office, Oh My! [louder] Tea Parties, Kidney Dialysis and Chemo, Oh My!

(Healthcare Bill): Alright, I’ll go in there for the Public. Republicans or no Republicans, guards or no guards, I’ll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I’m going in there. There’s only one thing I want you fellows to do.

(Public): What’s that?

(Healthcare Bill): Back me up!

(Public)[Turns towards congress]: We do and we want Congress to knwo it is Time!

(Healthcare Bill): [singing]

I’m just a bill
Yes, I’m only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I’m off to the White House
Where I’ll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I’ll be a law.
How I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
But how I hope and I pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.

(Congress): He signed you, Healthcare Bill! Now you’re a law!

(Healthcare Bill): Oh yes!!!