CBO’s Health Team
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 by Douglas ElmendorfToday’s Wall Street Journal quotes me saying that CBO has between 40 and 50 people working “more than full time” on health reform. Yesterday’s Politico included me in an article about “Names, Faces to Watch for In Debate Over Care,” and the story referred to “Elmendorf and his team of anonymous analysts.”
Clearly, analyzing health reform proposals is a team effort. Indeed, projecting the behavioral consequences and budgetary impact of a variety of proposals to make major changes in a sector that accounts for one-sixth of the U.S. economy poses an enormous analytical challenge. CBO is meeting that challenge because of the skill, knowledge, and hard work of our talented staff (and of our colleagues on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, with whom we are collaborating in this effort).
Because CBO believes that its estimating methodology should be as transparent as possible, perhaps our estimating team should be transparent as well. In that spirit, here are the previously anonymous analysts at CBO who deserve a great deal of credit for their fine work analyzing health reform and related legislative proposals (I realize this list has more than 50 names; that’s because some of these people have other responsibilities beyond health reform):
Christi Anthony David Auerbach David Austin Colin Baker Elizabeth Bass Jim Baumgardner Patrick Bernhardt Tom Bradley Paul Burnham Stephanie Cameron Sheila Campbell Jodi Capps Michael Carpenter Julia Christensen Mindy Cohen Anna Cook Paul Cullinan Sunita D’Monte Noelia Duchovny Sean Dunbar Philip Ellis Pete Fontaine |
Carol Frost Mike Gilmore Matt Goldberg Heidi Golding April Grady Stuart Hagen Holly Harvey Jean Hearne Janet Holtzblatt Lori Housman Paul Jacobs Sarah Jennings Daniel Kao Jamease Kowalczyk Susan Labovich Julie Lee Leo Lex Joyce Manchester Kate Massey Noah Meyerson Alex Minicozzi Carl Mueller |
Carla Murray Athiphat Muthitacharoen Keisuke Nakagawa Kirstin Nelson Lyle Nelson Andrea Noda Ben Page Allison Percy Lisa Ramirez-Branum Lara Robillard Matt Schmidt Kurt Seibert Sven Sinclair Julie Somers Robert Stewart Julie Topoleski Bruce Vavrichek David Weiner Ellen Werble Chapin White Rebecca Yip |