Sick Nation

How we got a sick nation with a rich medication

Pills on the screen, but no real salvation

You can lose your house for a simple operation

While they cash checks off your desperation

We broke but the system stay paid

Hospital lights but the debt never fade

Doc say breathe, but the bill say "No"

Welcome to the land where the profit run the show

Ambulance ride got a price like gold

One wrong step, now you deep in a hole

You can work all year, do what you are told

One bad scan, and they repo your soul

Politicians say "care" when they on that stage

Then they vote no once the cameras fade

Lobby money whisper in a private room

So the cure never comes for the waiting room

Grandma choosing between meds and the rent

Kids coughing in a tent by the freeway vent

While the CEO's bonus got another percent

And a jet on the runway where the premiums went

How we got a sick nation with a rich medication

Pills on the screen, but no real salvation

You can lose your house for a simple operation

While they cash checks off your desperation

We broke but the system stay paid

Hospital lights but the debt never fade

Doc say breathe, but the bill say "No"

Welcome to the land where the profit run the show

We got ads selling cures every break on the news

But they never say a word about the people that lose

Fine print long, full of side effect blues

While your copay climb in them corporate shoes

Mental health line put you right on hold

You cry to a bot, get a script, then you fold

War vets begging on the side of the road

Same hands they praised when the flag was rolled

We pray for a day when a fever do not mean

You gotta check credit before you call the team

Where a broken bone do not break your dream

And care is a right, not a luxury scheme

Put your hands up if you ever felt the strain

Of a bill in the mail that you got from pain

If you ever skipped pills just to fill up the tank

Then you know who they rob when they laugh to the bank

How we got a sick nation with a rich medication

Pills on the screen, but no real salvation

You can lose your house for a simple operation

While they cash checks off your desperation

We broke but the system stay paid

Hospital lights but the debt never fade

Doc say breathe, but the bill say "No"

Welcome to the land where the profit run the show