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, May 14, 2007Primary Care Clinics Bring Accessible ServicePatient-friendly, low-cost service in retail settings Filed As: Health CarePatient-friendly health care is coming to a clinic near you, as I describe in a commentary for the Wall Street Journal. Below is a slightly edited version of my remarks in today's edition. It's Friday evening and you suspect that your child might have strep throat or a ... more »»
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Friday, May 11, 2007SCHIP Grows, Private Coverage ShrinksFiled As: Health CareDuring my testimony before the Energy and Commerce Committee last month, I cited studies showing that expansions of government health care programs often crowd-out private ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007The State of Health Care Financing TodayHSAs are growing, other reforms required Filed As: Health CareWhere has consumer-direct health care come from and where it it going? That's the topic of a talk I gave to the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment back in November You can now view the presentation (PDF) online. The luncheon was the first of several ... more »»
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Friday, April 27, 2007Conservatives Espouse Vision for Health CareSecretary Leavitt helps legislators shape reform plans Filed As: Health CareIn a luncheon address this week at the American Enterprise Institute, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt offered a note of optimism: Expenditures for the Part D prescription drug benefit were lower than expected and hospitalizations were down last year. He said he believes there is a ... more »»
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Friday, April 20, 2007One Cost of Government "Price Negotiations" in Prescription DrugsFiled As: Health CareWill private companies and freely choosing individuals control our health care system, or will government? That question is the backdrop to the ongoing debate in Congress over "price negotiation" for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Advocates of negotiation point to a 2006 Kaiser ... more »»
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Friday, April 13, 2007Turning the Ship AroundConsumers Demand Involvement in Health Care Filed As: Health CareConsumers, not just in the United States but in all developed countries, are demanding a much greater role in decisions involving their health care. People can find on the Internet a wealth of information about diseases, diagnoses, and treatment options, but all too often, they must fight bureaucracies ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007Number of Uninsured OverestimatedFiled As: Health CareThe Census Bureau has reported that more Americans have health insurance than it had previously reported. It says about 1.8 million more ... more »»
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Friday, March 16, 2007Single-Payer Plans Still Proposed, but RejectedFiled As: Health CareAdvocates of universal health coverage are stepping up the pace, even though when voters have a say on the question of single-payer health systems, they have rejected it. The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday began a series of five hearings on "Moving toward Universal Coverage." ... more »»
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007The Benefits of a Tax Cap on Health Insurance PremiumsFiled As: Health CareShould the tax benefits of employer-paid health insurance be limited? Here are some reasons why this is a good idea. The "tax cap" was one of the key recommendations that the president's more »»
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Thursday, March 1, 2007Improving the Children's Health Insurance ProgramFiled As: Health CareThe upcoming debate over funding the State Children's Health Insurance Program provides opportunities for Congress to use ten years of experience with the program to correct flaws and reshape it to be more responsive to the emerging 21st century health sector. Because SCHIP is a block-grant ... more »»
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