those are congress' decisions michdecisions. my role here is to help you address the long-term state of the fiscal issues. >> i highlight the words serious effort. >> i'd rather not answer that question. >> it has to be addressed. would you say that dealing with our long-term fiscal health that doesn't address medicare or social security is not a serious proposal? >> well, it is a fact that health care costs, medicare and medicaid in particular, are become an increasingly large part of the federal budget, and that unless you're willing to have the government be a much bigger share of the economy than it is now, ultimately those programs would basically squeeze out the other components of federal spending. >> and we will ultimately see a situation where our entitlement programs are 90 or 80% of the budget and the rest we'll have to fight over. to your knowledge has the administration put forth a plan to address the impending bankruptcy of medicare and social security? >> well, again, i think the focus has been in the next ten