American Enterprise Institute (AEI) adjunct scholar Roger Feldman is the Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance and Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, where he specializes in applying economic theory to health services research. He is currently a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and consults for various federal and state agencies on health care–related matters.

Previously, he served on the senior staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. From 1988 to 1992, he directed one of the four national research centers sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and has advised CMS on the design of a demonstration of competitive bidding for Medicare health plans. At AEI, Feldman’s research focuses on Medicare reform, competition in health care, and health insurance markets.

Feldman holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester. He obtained an M.S. in economics at the London School of Economics, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) adjunct scholar Bryan Dowd is the Mayo Professor of Public Health and the director of graduate programs in health services research and policy at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. His work at AEI focuses on the economics of health care policy, Medicare reform, and health insurance markets.

A health economist with a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, Dowd also has an M.S. in urban administration from Georgia State and a B.A. in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.