1. Tara Sussman Oakman ( ) completed this paper while a doctoral candidate in the Harvard University Health Policy Ph.D. program. She is now a program analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, D.C.
2. Robert J. Blendon is a professor of health policy and political analysis at both the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in Boston, Massachusetts.
3. Andrea L. Campbell is a Hayes Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
4. Alan M. Zaslavsky is a professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
5. John M. Benson is a research scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health.