1. Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin is an economist at RAND in Arlington, Virginia, where Susan Marquis ( ) is a senior economist. José Escarce is a professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Kanika Kapur is an associate economist at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Jill Yegian is director of the health insurance program at the California Health Care Foundation in Oakland.