1. Benjamin D. Sommers ( ) is a senior adviser in health policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
2. Thomas Buchmueller is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and a professor of business economics and public policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
3. Sandra L. Decker is an economist and distinguished consultant at the National Center for Health Statistics, in Hyattsville, Maryland.
4. Colleen Carey is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
5. Richard Kronick is the deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.