About the Editors

John Holahan is director of the Health Policy Research Center at the Urban Institute. His recent work has focused on the Medicaid program, as well as state health policy in general and issues of federalism and health. His research includes analyses of the recent growth in Medicaid expenditures, variations across states in Medicaid expenditures, the implications of block grants and expenditure caps, and the effects of changes in matching formulas on states. He has also published research on the growth in the number of uninsured over the past decade, and on the effects of expanding health insurance coverage on the number of uninsured and the resulting cost to federal and state governments.

Alan Weil is director of the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project. His research focuses on health policy, welfare policy, and federalism. He is the coeditor, with Kenneth Finegold, of Welfare Reform: The Next Act (Urban Institute Press, 2002). He was formerly the executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Joshua M. Wiener contributed to this volume when he was a principal research associate at the Urban Institute. He is now senior program director of Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Programs at RTI International. He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 100 articles on long-term care, Medicaid, health reform, health care rationing, and maternal and child health. He has also conducted policy analysis and research for the Brookings Institution, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Congressional Budget Office, the New York State Moreland Act Commission on Nursing Homes and Residential Facilities, and the New York City Department of Health.

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