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, July 18, 2008As Arizona Goes, So Goes the NationMedicaid ruining state fiscal health By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: GeneralThe fiscal balances of state and local governments will rapidly deteriorate in less than a decade and Medicaid spending is the principal culprit, according to a new American Enterprise Institute report based upon a Government ... more »»
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Monday, July 14, 2008Public Opinion on Health Care40% prefer government-run, but more think government would do a worse job By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareWhile Americans are satisfied with their own health care, they worry about increasing costs and how well the system is serving others, writes Karlyn Bowman, writing for the American Enteprise ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008A Shift from Providers to PatientsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe core principle of the Massachusetts Medicaid demonstration waiver is an experiment in shifting from targeting government funds to health care providers to redirecting those funds to patients to help them buy insurance, write Greg ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008The Downside of Medical Tourism--and Some RemediesBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe Washington Post reports on the potential disadvantages of medical tourism. When things go badly after an overseas operation, a patient may be left facing a host of challenges: lack of access to follow-up ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008New Guidance on HSAsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareHSAs seem so simple. But even with these straightforward accounts -- a savings account coupled with health insurance -- there seems to be an endless number of questions about them.The Treasury Department recently provided more »»
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008Balances on HSAs Are UpBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareTwo new reports give us updated data on health savings accounts. Among the things we learned: Average account balances hit $1,400, up from $1,028 in December 2006, according to an more »»
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008AMA Supports Tax Changes to Promote InsuranceBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe American Medical Association was one of the first major organizations, under the leadership of then-president Dr. Stormy Johnson, to see the wisdom of refundable tax credits to help the uninsured purchase health insurance. Over time, the AMA passed a number of follow-on recommendations to support the ... more »»
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Monday, June 30, 2008The Private Sector and Drug DevelopmentBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareIs the private sector or government more important in bringing new drugs to market?Ben Zycher and colleagues investigated whether new and improved medicines are the fruit of research financed or conducted by public agencies, the ... more »»
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Monday, June 30, 2008Godfather of Canadian System: We Need CompetitionBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThere is mounting evidence that centrally-controlled, government-dominated, taxpayer-financed, rule-driven health care systems are failing. Even the godfather of the Canadian system, Claude Castonguay, now acknowledges that it is in crisis, as the Manhattan Institute’s David Gratzer more »»
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Friday, June 27, 2008Still Waiting for that Government-Guaranteed CareBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe Center for Medicine in the Public Interest held a reception at the National Press Club on Monday evening to preview a new film that counters, with actual patient stories, the SiCKO fiction. And they launched a new website called more »»
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