Communities and Health Care

Analyzes the Rochester, New York, Hospital Experimental Payment program (HEP) of the 1980s and its aftermath, emphasizing the importance of local and state communities to health-care decision making and legislation. During the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate William J. Clinton praised Rochester's hospital experimental payment (HEP) program for containing costs and providing access to high quality health care. "If Rochester, New York, can do it with two-thirds of the cost of the rest of us,