http://www.theprimatepress.com A Monkey Could Do It Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know Barack wants me to be doing my part to support healthcare reform, and to donate my money to Organizing for America, and explain his proposal to my friends who aren't yet on board. And I know I haven't been paying much attention, what with trying to make a ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=241 Does anyone really think Republicans are going to vote for any healthcare reform bill no matter what's in it? I don't. While I truly applaud Obama's above and beyond efforts to invite them into non-partisan cooperation, so far his efforts have done no good. Republicans vote against everything proposed by ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=232 Finally, Barry Obama is seeing the light. I think the reality has set in on what that public option would really mean to the United States of America, and even a closet communist like him knows he could never get away with it. For an illustration of just what things would ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=230 New York Times Health Blog Prescriptions: So What’s a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway? By By Anne Underwood Published: August 17, 2009 Health insurance cooperatives aren't a new idea, but they are now the likeliest alternative to a public insurance option. Read Rest of Blog Post http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=225 What kind of man pins his hopes and dreams on a lawn chair made to fly by tying dozens of weather balloons to it? With milk jugs for ballast? Someone sort of crazy, someone who's a dreamer, someone "quirky". Yeah. In the current Steppenwolf production of Up by Bridget Carpenter, Ian ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=220 Preventive testing not covered by insurance: $166. Medically necessary root canal without dental insurance: $1280. One doctor visit in excess of calendar year limit: approx. $300. Out of pocket costs since April, when I was laid off: $1776. Public health care option: priceless. http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=211 The Art Institute’s thesis that “the Edvard Munch of popular imagination—a tortured, bohemian rebel who seemed almost a living version of the famous figure in The Scream—was in fact a myth, carefully constructed during Munch’s lifetime by critics, historians, and the artist himself” would be much more interesting if the ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=187 http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=179 Republicans in Congress are successfully leveraging the AIG crisis to critique and oppose Obama's budget. Let's remember that it was the Bush administration and Republican Congress of last session who gave the bailout to AIG (curious, some were allowed to fail, some were given bailouts) and DID NOT cancel the ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=177 I am a Democrat, but on the day after Sept. 11, 2001, I wanted nothing more than for the Bush administration to succeed. I was behind it. Though I disagree ideologically with Republicans, I had to go on faith that they would have the wisdom to respond effectively. And I ... http://www.theprimatepress.com/?p=174