In the Committee’s Final Report, the Committee found that Pennsylvania’s senior citizens were impacted the most by the rising cost in prescription medicine. The Committee determined that State assistance programs had unfair and un-realistic income requirements that excluded many individuals from qualifying for prescription drug discounts. Some of the recommendations of the Select Committee were to eliminate high insurance deductibles, to expand the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (P.A.C.E) so as to include most senior citizens and to control the price of life-sustaining drugs. The Select Committee proposed the use of tobacco settlement funds to provide prescription drug coverage for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians.