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...every funny person in L.A. and asks for notes. "Judd is like a feedback machine," says Feig. "He wants feedback of the person he doesn't even like or trust. And he's got the brain trust of comedy at the moment, old and new." The next stop is test audiences - 10 for Funny People. "We had a debate over how much is too much for a comedian to talk about his penis and testicles," Apatow says. "The answer there is, No amount is too much for an audience. The F-word count is at Goodfellas levels. People are waiting...
TIME: I thought I'd talk to you a little bit about just sort of the whole degree to which this is really a test of leadership, health care is, as much as anything. And last year at the news conference, when somebody asked you - it was almost a flip question - whose job is this, you said, "It's my job, I'm the President." But the fact is that no President has been able to pull off anything of this order of magnitude in 44 years. President Obama: Right...
...said is that if doctors and patients had that information, and you start changing some of these delivery systems, you will see significant changes in the cost of health care and you will see improved outcomes and improved convenience, because if people are going through a battery of tests when one test would be sufficient, every time they're going to the doctor, that's gas, babysitting, sitting around for two hours, a day off work. We're not even factoring in those costs...
...numbers, I don't want to give a definitive answer on that. I do think that if we can figure out what is a fair, appropriate percentage of your income that you're paying on health care, and peg it - peg subsidies so that it's meeting that test, potentially with some regional variation then we'll get it right. And I think that the committees are working on that. That's the kind of detail that we had anticipated working through in conference. If it turns out that Congress just can't get there and that's the holdup...
...will say that this has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisors - we had somebody here sitting right there this morning who is a medical expert, worked at McKinsey for a while, he's now working on our health care team - and he just ran through: We pay 77 percent more on prescription drugs, we're paying $6,000 more per individual on health...