get answers. christ gordon has that report. >> reporter: we let people of different ages and medical backgrounds ask their health care reform questions, which we then brought to a professor who teaches comparative health policy at the university of maryland school of public policy. the first question is from 90-year-old elizabeth sullen. >> i would like to ask what happens to medicare? >> all the pending bills make cuts in the medicare program. it's not clear whether the cuts will be on the providers, the doctors or hospitals, but somebody will suffer. >> reporter: joe is concerned about the cost. >> are things going to go up as far as i already got health care. >> proponents say they'll save so much money health insurance premiums will stay the same or go down. the problem with that is, it's a massive increase in the number of people covered. it's an increase in the kinds of things covered. either premiums will go up or taxes will go up to subsidize