The Pepper Commission's Misguided Solution to America's Health Care Problems

Publication Date: September 1990

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Edmund F. Haislmaier

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health care

Type: Report

Abstract:

The U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care, named the Pepper Commission after its congressional sponsor and first chairman, the late Florida Democrat Claude Pepper, released its final report this week. While this final version contains some additions and modifications, its basic recommendations are the same as those which received widespread criticism when outlined in the Commission's preliminary report issued this March.These recommendations show the Commission to be out of touch with the real problems of the United States health care system, and impractical in its suggested solutions.