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, May 16, 2008Saving on Surgery by Going AbroadBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMedical tourism can produce significant discounts on care, writes U.S. News & World Report as part of its "more »»
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008Private Initiative is Transforming Health CareBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareAt the Consumer Health World conference in Las Vegas, I was once again awed and by the innovative ideas and investment in solutions, technologies, and advances in health care and coverage. The real news at the conference was from business and medical leaders who are leading market changes, ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008UnitedHealth Group: HSA Enrollment Exceeds HRA EnrollmentBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareUnitedHealth Group recently said that for the first time enrollment by its members in health savings accounts (HSAs) have surpassed enrollment in more traditional health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), reports the ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Doctors Mad as HellThird-party intrusion, loss of patient choice By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePhysicians are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. That's the conclusion we draw from a new grassroots campaign by a group of physicians to get signatures on an open letter to Americans from physicians.Their unifying ... more »»
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Monday, May 12, 2008How Risky is Individual Health Insurance?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePeople in fair or poor health who have health insurance are less likely to drop or lose coverage if they have individual insurance than if they have small-group coverage, according to a study from Mark Pauly and Robert Lieberthal of Wharton. In particular, the study found that among workers in ... more »»
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Monday, May 12, 2008Just What the Doctor OrderedBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareDo various financial relationships between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry — promotional marketing, paid speaking and consulting, and research funding — compromise patient care, bias medical research, and diminish the integrity of the profession, asks AEI's Sally Satel. ... more »»
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Saturday, May 10, 2008500,000 in Georgia Enabled to Purchase Health InsuranceBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA new Georgia law will result in Georgia families having the best health insurance options available in any state. The law makes premiums for health savings account-eligible plans 100% deductible against state income tax for individuals. It also allows a $250 tax credit per employee for small ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008Premiums for Individual Insurance PoliciesBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe average premium for a health insurance policy purchased in the individual market in 2005 was $3,664 for individuals and $5,568 for families, according to a new study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and ... more »»
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Monday, May 5, 2008A Plan for HoosiersBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMitchell Roob and Seema Verma describe the success of the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) in a blog posting for Health Affairs. HIP is the first Medicaid expansion in the nation to be modeled in ... more »»
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Friday, May 2, 2008HSAs, State by StateLargest number in California; highest proportion in Minnesota By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareAmerica's Health Insurance Plans released its latest estimates of the number of people who have ... more »»
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