About the Authors

Jessica Saunders

Affiliation RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Layla Parast

parast@rand.org

Affiliation RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Susan H. Babey

Affiliation UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jeremy V. Miles

Affiliation RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

None of the authors have relevant financial disclosures to make. Working for the RAND Corporation, a non-profit public policy research institution, does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and material.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM JS LP SB. Analyzed the data: LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB. Wrote the paper: JS LP SB JM.