1. Emily R. Carrier ( ) is a senior health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan health research firm in Washington, D.C.
2. Marisa Dowling, a former research assistant at the Center for Studying Health System Change, is a medical student at the Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, North Carolina.
3. Robert A. Berenson is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, in Washington, D.C.