HEALTH
Children’s health insurance: a moral obligation?

IN THE NORTHEAST
• David Cutler is a professor of economics at Harvard University. He wrote the book Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System (Oxford University Press, 2004), which looks at issues involving access to health care. Contact 617-496-5216, dcutler@harvard.edu.
• Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He looks at the efficiency of the nation's current system for delivering health care to the indigent. Contact 617-253-8892, gruberj@mit.edu.
• Jacob S. Hacker is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. He is a member of the Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Social Research Institute's advisory panel on "Workable Strategies to Expand Health Coverage." Contact 203-432-5554, jacob.hacker@yale.edu.
• Ellen Beaulieu is an associate provost for planning and assessment at the University of New England's College of Health Professions in Portland, Maine. She is an expert on public health care policy. Contact 207-797-4523.
• Stuart Altman is a professor of national health policy at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an economist whose research interests are primarily in federal and state health policy. Contact 781-736-3803, altman@brandeis.edu.

IN THE EAST
• James R. Tallon Jr. is president of the United Hospital Fund of New York and chairman of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which tacks SCHIP. Contact  212-494-0700, jtallon@uhfnyc.org.
• Edmund D. Pellegrino is professor emeritus for the Center for Clinical Bioethics Medical Center at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He has written the section "The Good Samaritan in the Marketplace: Managed Care's Challenge to Christian Charity" for the book The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation and Patient-Caregiver Relationships (Eerdmans, 1998). Contact 202-687-5397, pellegre@georgetown.edu.
• The Rev. David Brown, pastor of Dubbs Memorial United Church of Christ in Allentown, Pa., is chairman of Congregations United for Neighborhood Action, a federation of faith-based institutions working to improve conditions for people in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. CUNA has called investment in children’s health care a moral imperative. Contact 610-435-7281, uccdubbs@verizon.net.
• Mark Pauly is chairman of the health care systems department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is an expert on medical economics, health policy and health insurance. Contact 215-898-2838, pauly@wharton.upenn.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• William Custer is an associate professor of risk management and insurance at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business in Atlanta. He is an expert in employee benefits, health care financing and health insurance. Contact 404-651-3041, wcuster@gsu.edu.
• Ken Thorpe is chairman of the health policy and management department at Emory University in Atlanta. He is an expert in health care financing, insurance and health care reform. Contact 404-727-3373, kthorpe@sph.emory.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Sarah Shuptrine is president and CEO for the Southern Institute on Children and Families, based in North Carolina but with affiliates throughout the South. The institute is a nonprofit organization that works with business leaders to try to improve children's quality of life, including access to health care. Contact 803-779-2607, sarah@kidsouth.org.
• Dr. Regina M. Benjamin is founder and CEO of Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which tracks SCHIP. Contact 251-824-4985.
• Larry Churchill is a professor of medical ethics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a professor at the graduate department of religion at the Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn. An expert on the justice and allocation of health care resources, he wrote Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone (Harvard University Press, 1998.) Contact 615-936-2686, larry.churchill@Vanderbilt.Edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Katie Merrell is senior analyst at the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an expert on the nation's health care financing system. Contact 773-702-1877, k-merrell@uchicago.edu.
• Catherine McLaughlin is director of the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The three-year initiative has been conducting research aimed at increasing understanding of the interaction between health, the labor market and the uninsured. Contact Jacqui Hinchey at 734-936-6842, jhinchey@umich.edu.
• Tim McBride is a professor of health management and policy at St. Louis University's School of Public Health. He focuses his research on Medicare reform, the uninsured and insurance markets, rural health and long-term care. Contact 314-977-4094, mcbridet@slu.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• The Rev. John Wester, the Catholic bishop of Salt Lake City, has called expansion of the SCHIP program “a moral imperative.” Contact through the diocesan office, 801-328-8641.
• Dr. Ron J. Anderson is president and chief executive officer of Parkland Health & Hospital System and a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which tracks SCHIP. Contact 214-590-8000.
• Dr. Arthur Kaufman is co-director of the University of New Mexico Health Care Plan in Albuquerque. The plan is a managed care model that serves uninsured residents of Bernalillo County, N.M. Contact 505-272-2165, AKaufman@salud.unm.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Winston E. Gooden is associate professor of clinical psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He wrote the article "A Critical Partner of Managed Care" for the Journal of Psychology and Christianity. Contact 626-584-5501, gooden@fuller.edu.
• Alain C. Enthoven is a professor emeritus at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University. His research focuses on financing and delivery of health care in the United States. Contact 650-723-0641, enthoven_alain@gsb.stanford.edu.
• Helen Ann Halpin is director of the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Contact 510-643-1675, helenhs@berkeley.edu.