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, March 28, 20081,000 Doctors Adopt Concierge CareFiled As: Health CareDoctors who charge an annual fee to patients in exchange for customized care including house calls are drawing the ire of some health insurance companies, reports the Houston Chronicle. United Healthcare confirmed it is ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008Individual Mandates are UnconstitutionalFiled As: Health CareTwo experts writing in the Los Angeles ... more »»
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Monday, March 31, 2008A New Treatment Plan from MayoFiled As: Health CareDr. Denis Cortese, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic, offered a healthy dose of insight about the crucial importance of patient-focused care during a more »»
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Thursday, March 27, 2008Washington Post Suggests HSAs as an OptionFiled As: Health CareThe Washington Post published a series of more »»
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008Vigorous Uptake for Healthy IndianaFiled As: Health CareThe Healthy Indiana Plan shows how consumer-driven coverage can help in the public sector, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Shelley Ross was the first of about 28,000 lower-income people who have signed up so far for the ... more »»
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Monday, March 24, 2008Responding to Differences in Health Care AccessFiled As: Health CareOur technical ability to measure apparent differences in mortality, health status, and access to health care services among various subpopulations and groups continues to expand much more rapidly than the identification and implementation of sustainable steps to reduce, let alone, eliminate them, writes ... more »»
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Friday, March 21, 2008Lessons from Universal Health Care SystemsFiled As: Health CareCritics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries with government-run, national health care systems as models for reform. However, a closer look shows that nearly all health care systems worldwide are wrestling with problems of rising costs and lack of access to care, writes more »»
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008What's "Acceptable Coverage?"Filed As: Health CareSould individuals be required to purchase health insurance? Recently I debated Len Nichols of the New America Foundation on this point (PDF), with Nichols arguing that ... more »»
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008Controls on "Excessive Prices" on Drugs has Powerful, Invisible EffectsFiled As: Health CareAs state and federal officials push for importation of American medicines from abroad to obtain cheaper drugs, they would do well to look at the experience of our nation's capital, writes Doug Bandow. The Washington D.C. City ... more »»
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Monday, March 17, 2008Private Sector Initiative to Improve Diabetic HealthFiled As: Health CareA gold standard in health policy is finding ways to improve care, save money, and enlist patients in better managing their chronic conditions. And we have new evidence of the success of a program that is doing just that. The more »»
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