Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI where he serves as the director of the Federalism Project and of the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Nelson J. Sabatini is secretary of health and mental hygiene for the State of Maryland. He previously was Maryland’s acting secretary of health and mental hygiene and deputy secretary for health care policy, finance, and regulation. Mr. Sabatini was executive vice president of community hospital integration and regional system development at the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation and he held multiple positions at the Social Security Administration (including deputy commissioner for management and assessment).

Dennis G. Smith is the director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He provides leadership in the development and implementation of national policies governing Medicaid, survey and certification, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and insurance reform provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Before his appointment as director of CMSO, Mr. Smith served on the Bush-Cheney transition team as chief liaison to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and he served as the director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Jinney Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and occasional research consultant to the Federalism Project.

Alan R. Weil is the director of the Assessing the New Federalism project at the Urban Institute. He was formerly the executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. As the chief health policy adviser to Colorado governor Roy Romer, Mr. Weil led Democratic staff in negotiations of the 1996 National Governors’ Association policy on Medicaid reform and the 1993 NGA policy in support of universal health insurance. He served on Hillary Clinton’s health care task force in 1994 and was the program director of the Colorado Children’s Campaign and legal counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security. Mr. Weil is the editor (with Kenneth Finegold) of Welfare Reform: The Next Act, and the editor (with John Holahan and Joshua Wiener) of Federalism and Health Policy.