furth furthermore, poll after poll make s it clear that the american people do not believe we should cut social security, medicare and medicaid. they believe that the wealthy, large corporations should start paying their fair share of taxes. >> go ahead. last point. >> last point. just in terms of fairness, people on top are doing phenomenally well. over 90% of all new income went to the top 1%. median family income is going down. who is better prepared to help us with with deficit reduction? struggling working people or people on top doing well? >> that was answered on november 6th. the proposals will be coming in next week. what changes would you be willing to make to medicare because the republicans, you heard mitch mcconnell, you have to have entitlement reform to the republicans is cuts. that's what their entitlement reform is. would you do anything to medicare at all? >> sure. look, ed, what has to be understood is are we not only the coup try that doesn't care to all people, we pay by far much more per capita for health care than does any other nation. it's a wasteful system.