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, September 25, 2009Why the Rush?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareCongressional leaders and the White House are pushing forward with their aggressive agenda to remake our health sector as though they are oblivious to the fear and outrage outside the Beltway and the pleas of the American people to put on the brakes.Only one in five Americans say their health ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009Public Plan, Higher Private PremiumsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA new government-run plan could sharply increase private insurance premiums if the plan were aggressively implemented to include large numbers of those who currently have private health insurance, write Allen Dobson et al. of the health care consulting firm ... more »»
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Monday, September 21, 2009Fictitious Revenues and Savings in Baucus BillBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareSenate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus spent much of the summer dancing with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to figure out how to squeeze his health reform bill into its scoring framework and get a positive outcome.Surprise, surprise, he succeeded! The CBO said on Wednesday that the Baucus ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009People Need Portable CoverageBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe New York Times published a letter I wrote in response to a recent column: To the Editor:
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Friday, September 11, 2009Medicare Should not be a ModelBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareJoe Antos of the American Enterprise Institute and I have a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal listing the top 10 reasons why Medicare should not be a model for health reform.
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Friday, September 11, 2009Health Exchanges: Different Political Railroad Tracks to the Same Station?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareSponsors of health reform bills in the House and Senate seemed to have learned all the wrong lessons, or none at all, from previous attempts at constructing health insurance exchanges, writes Thomas P. Miller of the American Enteprise Institute. In just about every case, the decision was made to go for ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009A Better Model for Health CareBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareAn innovative experiment in Florida shows the potential for more systemic collaboration as the catalyst for lower costs and improved quality, say three health care analysts writing at the site strategy+business.The Healthcare of the ... more »»
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Friday, September 11, 2009A Speech, Not a PlanBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePresident Obama's speech Wednesday night soared with oratory but fell flat in delivering on his promise to present details or any substantive new policy initiatives for his health reform plan.He may get a few days of lift from the passion and cheers in the House chambers, but the hard realities of ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009Use Targeted Health Care ReformsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe overwhelming backlash against the Washington-centric health reform proposals making their way through Congress has clearly put the Obama administration and its allies in Congress on the defensive, altering the health reform debate.The American people want their voices to be heard: They are ... more »»
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Saturday, September 5, 2009Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health CareBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareDrs. Groopman and Hartzband describe the myths and mantras of the current debate on health reform in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. It is fact that more than 40 million Americans lack coverage and spiraling costs are a burden on individuals, families and our ... more »»
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