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...even more U.S. patients to costlier secondary care like specialists and emergency rooms, which threatens to nullify any appreciable cost savings that Congress might pull out of its hat this fall. "If we fill the primary-care void," Stubbs estimates, "we could keep annual health-care cost increases to around 4% or less. If not, we'll stay at about 7% a year or more...
...experienced this too, right? During George W. Bush's Administration, you were caught off-record calling him the worst President in the nation's history. After that comment was published, it went around the world about 50 times. The White House press secretary called me wanting to know if I really had said that. And I had to admit that I had, to a reporter while I was signing my book, though I didn't know it was a reporter. But I didn't apologize because it's what I felt at the time. Anyway, it's a free press...
...being more secretive than any other? All of them are secretive. All of them. But I think we got a lot more out of President Kennedy and especially President [Lyndon] Johnson. He would summon us - the entire press corps - to the South Lawn and we'd stroll around the grounds with him. We'd call them the Bataan Death Marches because the women wore really high heels with pointed toes, and we would be falling all over each other. But we'd take these walks, and he would really let his hair down. We'd get real insight into...
...much has changed since you first started out as a reporter in the 1940s. What do you miss most? We were much closer to the President back then. We could walk down the street without 10 circles of security around. Now it's more difficult...
...there any way to get around that? Sure, if you can make a good friend of the President, so you can call him up and say, "What's going on?" But that's nirvana...