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.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008Social Networks, Meet Health CareBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareOnline technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, and experiences with each other are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care, writes Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health care economist ... more »»
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Thursday, April 24, 2008HSA Assets up 60% in One YearBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareHow popular are health savings accounts? Consider this. In a market where health insurance costs continue to rise for employers, more companies are turning to high-deductible health plans ... more »»
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Monday, April 28, 2008The Lesson of Massachusetts is NOT Single PayerBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe American Prospect, a magazine of liberal thought, carries an article in its current issue by Marcia Angell, M.D., of Harvard and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine that does indeed offer fuel for thought. Her article, "Health Reform You Shouldn't Believe In,... more »»
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008Dying for an Organ TransplantBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA few weeks ago, the Washington Post broke the dramatic medical news that as many as one third of all people waiting for an organ transplant are actually ineligible to receive one. Suggesting that the organ shortage is a manufactured crisis is more »»
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008Less is MoreFewer patients, more patient care By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMany physicians feel that it's their mission to serve as many patients as possible rather than to provide the best care possible, writes Beverly Hills internist Albert Fuchs. Most significantly, doctors today are preoccupied with the more »»
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Friday, April 18, 2008Kaiser Report Understates Resources open to UninsuredBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the resources available to people who are uninsured and finds that "households with few assets cannot handle the cost-sharing requirements of many high-deductible health plan options." The study, by Paul Jacobs and Gary Claxton of ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008SCHIP CrowdoutFiled As: Health CarePeter R. Orszag of the Congressional Budget Office recently testified on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on its impact on the number of uninsured low-income children and the extent to which it displaces private coverage. (more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008When an Individual Mandate Doesn't Mandate MuchBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe risks associated with individual mandates suggest that they are no panacea, Sherry A. Glied of Columbia University writes in the New England Journal of Medicine. One important concern, says Dr. Glied, is that the government will provide insufficient funds for the subsidies intended to ... more »»
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Monday, April 14, 2008Double Your WaitBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMassachusetts' law requiring everyone to have health insurance is putting added pressure on primary care physicians and lengthening the wait for appointments--an unintended consequence of universal coverage, reports The more »»
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Friday, April 11, 2008Making HSA Use More CumbersomeFiled As: Health CareAs we feared, the House Ways and Means Committee did indeed approve legislation on Wednesday that would require every expenditure from Health Savings Accounts to be approved, injecting new complexities, driving up costs, and discouraging HSA enrollment.
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