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Assistant Director |
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Bruce Vavrichek |
Deputy Assistant Director |
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James Baumgardner (Health) |
Unit Chiefs |
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Philip Ellis (Health Policy Analysis) |
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Joyce M. Manchester (Long-Term Modeling Group) |
Division Administrative Assistant |
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Ronald L. Moore |
Analysts |
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Nabeel A. Alsalam (Education and labor markets) |
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David Auerbach (Private health insurance, uninsured, health workforce, health care spending) |
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Colin Baker (Pharmaceutical industry, private health insurance, health care mandates, public health) |
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Patrick Bernhardt (Assistant) |
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Michael A. Carpenter (Computer modeling, survey analysis) |
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Anna E. Cook (Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical industry) |
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Molly W. Dahl (Income Security and Labor Markets) |
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Noelia J. Duchovny (Medicare payments to physicians, Medicaid, obesity, disability) |
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Carol N. Frost (Computer modeling, survey analysis) |
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Stuart A. Hagen (Private health insurance, uninsured, long-term care, medical malpractice, Medicaid) |
Analysts |
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Tamara Hayford |
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Janet Holtzblatt (Income security, health policy, employment) |
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Paul Jacobs (Private health insurance, uninsured) |
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Daniel J. Kao (Medicare, payments to providers) |
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Susan H. Labovich (Coordinator; computer modeling, survey analysis) |
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Alexandra L. Minicozzi (Private health insurance, uninsured) |
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Keisuke Nakagawa (Assistant) |
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Lyle Nelson (Medicare, State Children's Health Insurance Program, uninsured) |
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Chapin White (Medicare, payments to providers) |
Long Term Modeling Group |
Analysts |
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Ken Kashiwase (Health, macroeconomics, long-term microsimulation) |
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Noah P. Meyerson (Long-term Social Security and budget projections) |
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Charles Pineles-Mark (Model development) |
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Jonathan A. Schwabish (Labor force and earnings micro modeling) |
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Michael S. Simpson (Model development) |
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Julie H. Topoleski (Social Security, Medicare, long-term health micro modeling) |
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Health and Human Resources Division
Telephone: (202) 226-2666
Fax: (202) 225-3149
The Health and Human Resources Division analyzes policies and programs in the areas of health (Medicare, Medicaid, public health, and private health markets), Social Security and pensions, labor markets (employment, wages, training), income assistance, education, housing, and social services. The staff perform detailed analyses of proposed legislation, develop models that underlie a number of CBO's cost estimates, prepare studies for the Congress, and assess the impact of legislative initiatives on the private sector.
Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources
Bruce Vavrichek joined CBO in 1981. Before being named Assistant Director, he was an analyst and the Deputy Assistant Director in CBO's Health and Human Resources Division, where he focused on issues related to labor economics, health economics, and public policy. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, where he taught and conducted research on microeconomics and econometrics. |
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