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Acknowledgements |
These persons participated in preparing the Briefing Book on Health Care: John C. Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Dr. Goodman has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and has taught or done research at seven colleges and universities. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles published in professional journals. Dr. Goodman has written widely on health care, Social Security, privatization, the welfare state and other public policy issues. His latest book, coauthored with Gerald L. Musgrave, is Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis. In 1988, Dr. Goodman won the prestigious Duncan Black award for the best scholarly article on Public Choice economics. Merrill Matthews, Jr., Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the NCPA. Dr. Matthews has a Ph.D. in philosophy and humanities. He has an extensive background in medical ethics, and lectures and consults on medical ethical issues. He serves on the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School's Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation and is the ethicist for the medical ethics committee at Richardson Medical Center. He also is the political analyst for the USA Radio Network and writes an editorial-page column for a chain of suburban newspapers. Peter Ferrara, Senior Fellow of the NCPA. A former Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation, he was the John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy at Heritage. He was a special assistant in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal, a policy advisor to the U. S. Attorney General and a senior staff member in the White House Office of Policy Development. Mr. Ferrara received his bachelor's and law degrees from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous studies and scholarly articles. Gerald L. Musgrave, President of Economics America, Inc., a consulting firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Musgrave, a former Research Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, has written widely on health care and other issues, and is the coauthor with John C. Goodman of Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis. He is chairman of the Health Economics Roundtable of the National Association of Business Economists and served as a presidential appointee to the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. He is a director of the Mackinac Center in Michigan and chairman of the academic advisory board of the Bahamas Institute of Economic Affairs. Dorman E. Cordell, Senior Scholar in charge of production for the NCPA. Mr. Cordell works closely with authors and does much of the editing of NCPA studies and backgrounders. He is also the editor of the institute's bimonthly newsletter, Executive Alert. He has written and spoken extensively on health care for the NCPA. Before coming to the NCPA, Mr. Cordell was a newspaper publisher and an executive of The Associated Press, the world's largest newsgathering organization. He has an MBA from the University of Dallas. Most of the typesetting and graphics work for the Briefing Book was done by Krishonne Chester, NCPA production associate.
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