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.
Thursday, September 18, 2008What the Lack of a National Insurance Market is Costing YouBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePublic officials and health care experts have suggested a number of reforms to reduce the cost of individual health insurance, but most of the proposals fail to address the contribution of mandated benefits to the high cost of insurance in many states, write ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008Who Uses Retail Health Clinics?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA new RAND Health study examines the types of patients who use retail health clinics and the health care services delivered by the clinics, which they say are growing in number and popularity. Researchers analyzed details about ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008Ending the Expansion of SCHIPBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareLast year's SCHIP debate appeared to be less about providing affordable health care to low-income children than about bailing out states that had overextended their budgets, says Dennis G. Smith of The Heritage Foundation. ... more »»
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Monday, September 15, 2008When Tax Policy Shapes Employment ChoicesBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMalathi R. Velamuri, a lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at Victoria University of Wellington, examines whether the availability of health coverage through a spouse's health plan influences a married woman's decision to more »»
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Friday, September 12, 2008Equality of Health Care SpendingBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareCosts are the defining issue in the health care debate, and Brookings Institution economist Gary Burtless offers some revealing more »»
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Friday, September 12, 2008What Does $200 Billion Purchase? Job LockBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe federal government is providing more than $200 billion in taxpayer money to lock the purchase of health insurance into your job, says Todd Stottlemyer of the National Federation of Independent Business. The connection between the ... more »»
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Thursday, September 11, 2008Why Are Clinical Trials Few in the UK?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePharmaceutical companies from around the world have been scaling back clinical research in the United Kingdom, largely because of government parsimony, says Peter Pitts. The main ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008Health Care's EntrepreneursThey will deliver, if government keeps away By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareEntrepreneurs are finding ways to bring innovative, consumer-oriented health care to market -- simplifying medical decisions, reinvigorating primary care, and lowering health care costs, writes Paul Howard in the Summer 2008 edition of more »»
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Monday, September 8, 2008The CON Game: Palin v. HospitalsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareIn a commentary published earlier this year, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) describes her state's proposal to repeal its Certificate of Need (CON) program. After more than 30 years of such programs, the National Conference of State Legislatures has found there is no solid proof that the ... more »»
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Friday, August 15, 2008Fiscal Flameout in the Free StateThe folly of financing government by taxing smokers is proven yet again Filed As: General, Health CareLast year, the Maryland legislature doubled the cigarette tax to $2 a pack to pay for expanded health-care coverage, but eight months later, cigarette sales have plunged 25 percent and the state is in fiscal distress again. In New York City and State, tobacco taxes have been raised so many times that the ... more »»
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