Roger Feldman is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Feldman was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester. His research examines the organization, financing, and delivery of health care with a focus on health insurance. Dr. Feldman served on the Senior Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he was the lead author of a chapter in the 1985 Economic Report of the President. From 1988 to 1992, he directed one of the four national research centers sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He advised CMS on the design of a demonstration of competitive bidding for Medicare health plans. He is currently on the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and consults for various federal and state agencies on matters related to health care. Dr. Feldman is a regular contributor to journals of economics and health services research. He has received five “best paper” awards from the Association for Health Services Research and the National Institute for Health Care Management.