1. David U. Himmelstein ( ) is an internist; a professor at the School of Public Health and Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City; and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
2. Miraya Jun was a research officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in the United Kingdom, at the time of this study. She is now an independent consultant to the LSE.
3. Reinhard Busse is a professor of health care management at the Technische Universität Berlin–World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Systems Research and Management, in Berlin, Germany.
4. Karine Chevreul is the deputy director of the Paris Health Services and Health Economics Research Unit at the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris (the Paris area’s University Medical Center) and deputy director of ECEVE (UMR 1123), a research team of the French National Institute of Medical Research, in Paris, France.
5. Alexander Geissler is a senior research fellow in health care management at the Technische Universität Berlin, in Germany.
6. Patrick Jeurissen is head of the Celsus Academy on Sustainable Healthcare, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Radboud University, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
7. Sarah Thomson is an associate professor in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, and a senior research associate at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, in London, England.
8. Marie-Amelie Vinet is a health economist at the Paris Health Services and Health Economics Research Unit at the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris and also a member of the ECEVE team (UMR 1123) of the French National Institute of Medical Research.
9. Steffie Woolhandler is an internist; a professor at the School of Public Health and Hunter College, CUNY; and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.