. >> we're going to be able to take three more quickly, bill, janet hayes, and don slezak. under any bill says under any new health plan will you support legislation that will provide military retirees with benefits similar to the ones in place? well, bill, certainly i will do everything in my power to protect those benefits and make sure -- try to make sure a new plan doesn't erode those benefits, but i'm very concerned that a new big government plan would end up eroding those benefits or even eventually collapsing that system in to the bigger system. anybody else want to respond? any follow-up? >> david, first of all, i'm mike and thank you so very much. >> sorry. >> it's ok. i want to thank you for everything you have done. and i'm a little confused, as most of us are, a lot of us here are on fixed incomes, on social security. we have been told that social security will drop this following year because of increases in medicare and that there will be no cost of living increases. you have to explain to me why that is because if medicare is going to increase and reduce our