Bill Clinton: “Well, the answer to your question is, the only way to control the health care entitlements is to get control of health…”

“Well, the answer to your question is, the only way to control the health care entitlements is to get control of health care costs. And the only way to control health care costs in this country, in which we're spending 35 percent more of our income on health care than anybody else, is to provide some way for everybody to have some coverage, not lose it when they change jobs, and control public and private costs the way every other advanced nation has done. We cut a lot on the entitlements, on retirement entitlements, public employee entitlements, and health care. We need to cut much more, and we will. Ms. Zahn. Thank you, President Clinton. We will be back with a half hour more of our town meeting after this break. [The network took a commercial break.] Ms. Zahn. Welcome back to ``CBS This Morn- ing'' and our special 2-hour meeting with President Clinton. We just had to go into a break, and we were talking about the notion of entitlements from this man back here. And his essential question was, with entitlements representing about at least 50 percent of our budget, when is the Government going to get serious about cutting into these programs? Did I paraphrase that correctly?”