Grace-Marie Turner
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, consumer-driven marketplace in the health sector.
The Galen Institute has been instrumental in promoting Health Savings Accounts and other consumer-friendly ideas that transfer power over health care decisions from bureaucracies to individuals.
In December of 2004, Grace-Marie was invited by President Bush to speak on HSAs and consumer-directed health reform at the White House Economic Summit. She recently was appointed by former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council of Healthcare Research and Quality.
Grace-Marie also is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop health policy recommendations.
She is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, published by the University of Michigan Press.
In 1995-96, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. For 12 years, she was president of Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm in Washington, D.C.
Her early career was in politics and journalism, where she received numerous awards for her writings on economics and politics.
Friday, February 22, 2008A Correction on NFIBFiled As: Health CareFollowing up on my recent commentary about the National Federation of Independent Business joining forces with a big labor union and the AARP on health care, I inaccurately said that the NFIB sponsored the Harry and Louise ads about the ... more »»
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008An Alternative to Standard SCHIPFiled As: Health CareWal-Mart has announced that the percentage of associates who now have health insurance for 2008 has more »»
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008Insurance Mandates Continue to Grow15 in Idaho, but 64 in Minnesota Filed As: Health CareThe number of state mandated health benefits continues to grow -- to 1,961 nationwide, up from 1,901 last year, according to CAHI's annual list of health insurance mandates (PDF) in each state. The ... more »»
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Monday, February 11, 2008Four Years of HSA ExperienceAetna report: Cost savings, more preventive care Filed As: Health CareAetna continues to follow the health care claims and utilization of 1.6 million members of its Aetna HealthFund consumer-directed plans, and four years of evidence continues to show sustained savings, more patient engagement in managing health, and ... more »»
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008Health Care Charity in ActionFiled As: Health CareFor four years, New Jersey’s Zarephath Health Center has helped churches meet the health care needs of the poor, uninsured, and under-insured, writes the Courier News of ... more »»
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Monday, January 28, 2008Cash and CarryFiled As: Health CareUSA Today ran an article last week about employers who are moving away from offering health insurance and giving them cash instead. In the 1980s, major companies began ... more »»
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Saturday, January 26, 2008If Your Paycheck Isn't Going Up So Quickly ...Blame rising health care costs Filed As: Health CareInvestor’s Business Daily recently published an more »»
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Thursday, January 24, 2008CDHC Gets Bad RapFiled As: Health CareWhat on earth does the Employee Benefit Research Institute have against consumer-directed health care? EBRI just issued the ... more »»
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008Medicaid as an Economic Stimulant?Filed As: Health CareAmong the bad ideas floating around Washington to stimulate the lagging economy is a proposal that would boost the federal government's matching payments to the states for Medicaid. Our colleague Bob Helms of the American Enterprise Institute has done excellent original more »»
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Friday, January 18, 2008CDHC Consumers Don't Underuse Preventive CareFiled As: Health CareDespite the exemption of preventive services from cost sharing in many consumer-directed health plans, critics have continued to predict underuse of preventive services, based on the fear that people in a high-deductible plan will reduce their use of all services and will not discriminate between those ... more »»
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