Thomas Buchmueller, the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Ross School of Business, is an expert on the economics of employer-sponsored insurance and health insurance competition, regulation and reform, and can discuss the presidential candidates’ plans for health care reform and coverage expansions. He can be reached at (734) 764-5933 or tbuch@umich.edu

Kyle Grazier, professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, and professor of psychiatry at the U-M Medical School. Grazier can discuss the effects of health care financing and insurance mechanisms on patterns of use, costs and the delivery of high quality, efficient health care. She is also researching the impact of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Grazier led the committee to redesign U-M health benefits in 2005 and 2009. Contact: (734) 936-1222.

Peter Jacobson, professor of health law and policy and director, Center for Law, Ethics, and Health, has focused on the legal and regulatory aspects of medical care delivery and public health services. Conversant with various facets of health care reform, public health preparedness and public health ethics. He can be reached at (734) 936-0928 or pdj@umich.edu

Richard Lichtenstein, associate professor of health management and policy at the U-M School of Public Health, can discuss overall issues confronting the U.S. health care system, health disparities, and health-care access for low-income populations. He is also the chair of two voluntary employee beneficiary associations that provide health benefits to retirees. Contact: (734) 936-1316 or lichto@umich.edu.