COMMENTARY:

“Billionaires for Wealthcare” Serenade the Insurance Industy

Remember the Billionaires for Bush? They’re back, reincarnated under the new title Billionaires for Wealthcare, with the stated mission: “We’ll do whatever it takes to ensure another decade where your pain is our gain.”

In their best stunt so far, a group of well-dressed moles from BFW infiltrated a meeting of the industry shill group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). In the middle of a speech, they burst into song, in an homage to the public option scored to the theme of the Broadway show “Annie.” They managed to get to the end of their song before they were escorted out of the room. Here’s their performance, with commentary from Rachel Maddow:

You can find more videos at the BFW web site. In this one, the billionaires stage a mock counter-protest at a pro-health care reform rally in New York, carrying signs that say things like “Survival of the Richest” and “If We Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It”—and never once breaking character.

And here they are arriving in a stretch limo at a “tea party” in San Diego—where they turn out not to be the most outrageous members of the crowd.