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.
Monday, September 24, 2007Insurance at Low Prices, Wal-Mart StyleFiled As: Health CareWal-Mart recently released this week details of its impressive new health insurance offerings for its 1.3 million (!) “associates.” Workers ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007Women Prefer PortabilityFiled As: Employment, Health CareWall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel hit a nerve with her commentary on "What Women Want." She explains ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007Credits? Deductions? BothPromoting individual ownership of health insurance Filed As: Health CareAre tax credits or tax deductions for the individual purchase of health insurance better? A recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal (link for subscribers) on weighs in on moving toward ... more »»
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Monday, September 10, 2007The Doctor WILL See YouFiled As: Health CareRecently, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he wants to make preventive care mandatory in his mandatory health ... more »»
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Thursday, August 23, 2007SCHIP Reform Goes FirstFiled As: Health CareMixing reauthorization and expansion of SCHIP is confusing the public, and we are at risk that major policy decisions about the future of our health sector could be made without a full debate. I've offered some suggestions for reforming SCHIP for the journal more »»
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Thursday, August 30, 2007Census Numbers ReleasedFiled As: Health CareThe big news of the week was the Census Bureau releasing its estimates of the number ... more »»
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Monday, August 13, 2007Federal Bar Association: Tax Credits "Best System"Filed As: Health CareDespite the fight among friends, we are making steady progress in educating the debate about the need to fix the problems with the tax treatment of health insurance. One more group has studied our health sector extensively ... more »»
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Monday, August 6, 2007Single Payer versus Single DeciderFiled As: Health CareAlphonse Crespo, a physician in Geneva, captures the political and philosophical question in the health care debate: "Citizens always wind up paying for health care, either through taxes, insurance premiums, or out-of-pocket costs. So we all have a single-payer system -- and we are the payers. ... more »»
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Friday, August 10, 2007Differences among FriendsFiled As: Health CareSeveral senators were poised to offer an amendment to the SCHIP bill during the Senate debate last week that reflected long hours of work on a free-market, patient-centered alternative. But they ran into a buzz-saw of opposition, not from the Left but from a friend of free markets, Grover Norquist of ... more »»
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Friday, August 3, 2007Freedom versus SecuritySCHIP as Middle-Class Welfare? Filed As: Health CareThe battle over health insurance for children reached a crescendo this week as both houses of Congress passed their own, very different, bills. Both go far beyond reauthorizing the 10-year-old SCHIP program, and together load onto the back of this one bill major changes to the Medicare Advantage program, to ... more »»
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