1. Joachim O. Hero ( ) is a doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2. Robert J. Blendon is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts.
3. Alan M. Zaslavsky is a professor of health care policy (statistics) in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
4. Andrea L. Campbell is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge.