successful. >> why don't we expand it to everybody, and cut the investments that he's going to be putting into the military by just, you know, a little bit, and allow for an expansion of a program that only has very narrow band of increases? >> the answer is what we need to do is we need to push on innovation. medicare piggy-backs off a lot of innovation in the private sector. there is a lot of cost-shifting with medicare and medicaid that allows them to hold down their costs. >> let's just have it continue. >> it doesn't work unless you have a private-sector system to off load some of these costs. the government fixes the amount of money that can be put into it. the better approach is -- i am advocating this to the trump administration if they're listening. >> he watches cable. >> i think he watches tv enough to know what you guys are reporting because he comments a lot on. >> sure does. >> look, what we did in the 1996