I Want My Cancer Free

I think everyone living at the Hotel Carcinoma would agree that cancer sucks, for a whole host of reasons. Among them is that being a patient is expensive, even with the best of insurance coverage. Paying a lot of money for a disease I’d rather not have is a lot like getting dragged to a pricey charity event that I really, really didn’t want to go to and finding a cash bar serving $10 Bud Light as the sole beer selection.

Cancer being nothing anybody would pay for by choice, I can’t think of a better song of the day than Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDDswGsJ60

I want my cancer free

Now look at this co-pay how you gonna pay it
You get your cancer and it’s not for free
This ain't workin' like the way you want it
Treatment for nothin' and your docs for free
Now this ain't workin' like the way you want it
Lemme tell ya them docs charge some
Maybe get a billing in the low six figures
Maybe get a bill make you suck your thumb


We gotta got these MRI scannings
Frequent checkups that ain’t for free
We gotta get these PET scans forever
We gotta get these chemo IV’s

See the pricey surgeon cut your cancer with his scalpel
Yeah buddy that’s skill so rare
That pricey surgeon drives a new Mercedes
That pricey surgeon he’s a millionaire

We gotta got these MRI scannings
Frequent checkups that ain’t for free
We gotta get these PET scans forever
We gotta get these chemo IV’s

I shoulda got myself in Congress
I shoulda learned to raise them funds
Look at that Congress, they get their healthcare from the taxpayers
Man we would like some
And they’re up there, how’s that? Ignoring voices?
Hangin' on the lobbyists like a chimpanzee
This ain't workin' like the way you want it
Get your treatment for nothin' get your docs for free

We gotta got these MRI scannings
Frequent checkups that ain’t for free
We gotta get these PET scans forever
We gotta get these chemo IV’s

Look a' here
This ain't workin' like the way you want it
You get your cancer and it’s not for free
This ain't workin' like the way you want it
Treatment for nothin' and your docs for free
Treatment for nothin' and docs for free

Treatment for nothin' and your docs for free

Dream of that, dream of that

Treatment for nothin' and your docs for free
I want my, I want my, I want my cancer free
Treatment for nothin' and docs for free

I want my, I want my, I want my cancer free