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, March 10, 2008Use of Telemedicine IncreasingFiled As: Health CareTelemedicine introduces opportunities for improved access to health care services for all Americans -- regardless of geography -- with lower costs and better outcomes, according to the Center for Health Transformation. ... more »»
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Friday, March 7, 200812.5 Million Now in Consumer-Directed Health PlansFiled As: Health CareEnrollment in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) grew by 25% in 2007, from 10 million Americans to 12.5 million, according to a study commissioned by the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations. Other highlights from the study, which focused ... more »»
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008Support for Individual Mandate "Iffy"Filed As: Health CareA new poll on health care finds that strong support for an individual mandate. ... more »»
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Monday, March 3, 2008TurboTax Trouble with HSAsFiled As: Health CareThere are gremlins at TurboTax thwarting people trying to enter their tax deductible Health Savings Account contributions. A number of people have been frustrated in dealing with the software, including a top HHS official, who recounted this experience:In TurboTax's on-line tax form, "their ... more »»
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Monday, March 3, 2008$23,000 for a Policy in MassachusettsFiled As: Health CareMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been boasting that his state's health reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 more people added to the health insurance rolls. What he doesn't say is that four out of five of them are relying heavily on taxpayer ... more »»
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Friday, February 22, 2008Consumers Can be Active in Health Care--if Given the ChanceFiled As: Health CareA new study out by Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions is a must read. The big consulting firm has produced the most comprehensive profile so far of the American health care consumer, under the direction of the center's executive director, Paul Keckley, Ph.D. The more »»
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Friday, February 22, 2008A Correction on NFIBFiled As: Health CareFollowing up on my recent commentary about the National Federation of Independent Business joining forces with a big labor union and the AARP on health care, I inaccurately said that the NFIB sponsored the Harry and Louise ads about the ... more »»
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008An Alternative to Standard SCHIPFiled As: Health CareWal-Mart has announced that the percentage of associates who now have health insurance for 2008 has more »»
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008Insurance Mandates Continue to Grow15 in Idaho, but 64 in Minnesota Filed As: Health CareThe number of state mandated health benefits continues to grow -- to 1,961 nationwide, up from 1,901 last year, according to CAHI's annual list of health insurance mandates (PDF) in each state. The ... more »»
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Monday, February 11, 2008Four Years of HSA ExperienceAetna report: Cost savings, more preventive care Filed As: Health CareAetna continues to follow the health care claims and utilization of 1.6 million members of its Aetna HealthFund consumer-directed plans, and four years of evidence continues to show sustained savings, more patient engagement in managing health, and ... more »»
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