1. Glenn A. Melnick ( ) is a professor of health care finance in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.
2. Yu-Chu Shen is a tenured associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, in Monterey, California.
3. Vivian Yaling Wu is an assistant professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California.