Traditional Medicare Ain’t What She Used to Be

Lyrics by: Originally by An Unknown Grannie (Revised by Lee Stanfield)
Gaggle: Tucson Raging Grannies
Tune: The Old Grey Mare
Date Written or Updated: 08/13/24

Tradishnal Medicare ain’t what she used to be.

Ev’ry C M S decree cuts her fundin’ more, you see.  

If people keep votin’ in corp’rate funded candidates

it’s curtains for seniors like us!

 

            Trump and Biden appoin-tees

            have brought Medi-care to her knees!

            Don’t let ’em finish her off, pretty, pretty please!

            DON’T CORP’RA-TIZE MEDI-CARE!

 

Where are old folks like us sup-posed to go

when we end up short of dough and we hurt from head to toe?

For dec-ades, they’ve been mur-dering our Med-icare,

re-plac-ing it with A C Os!

 

            Advantage plans and A C Os

            are Medicare’s biggest foes!

            A C O-Reach is REACHin’ in our pockets.

            And it’s REACHED a brand new low!

 

A C O REACH. That is what they call their plan.

It is just an-oth-er scam, just a “slam-bam-thank-you-ma’am!”

forcing ev’ry se-nior in-to a corp‘rate plan

run by pro-fi-teers.

 

            Ev’-ryone up in years

            shares the same old fears.

            When we’re MOST in need of our Med-icare

            IT   WILL  NOT  BE  THERE!

 

You may think that  you’re a young and health-y cuss.

Why should you feel that you must help some old farts make a fuss?

Keep in mind some day you’ll be join-in’ us

here be-neath that bus!

 

            One thing we know for sure!

            Med-icare For All is the cure!

            In-stead of greedy for-profit compan-ies,

            we need single payer now!

 

DEMAND EVERY CANDIDATE VOTE FOR IT!!!