(Advanced) Individual or class project. For students with computing and statistical skills, the MEPS database is available at www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/. For an individual or class project, try to replicate, or improve, Coughlan’s 2014 estimates of the costs of universal insurance for the most recent data year. Be attentive to key assumptions as to how much care those who are currently uninsured might purchase, under the various proposals.