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Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute
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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.
She 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.
Grace-Marie recently completed a three-year term as a member of the National Advisory Council of Healthcare Research and Quality and served as a member of the Medicaid Commission, charged with making recommendations to modernize and improve Medicaid.
The Galen Institute has been instrumental in promoting ideas that transfer power and control over health care decisions from bureaucracies to doctors and patients.
Recent Responses
September 13, 2010 12:24 PM
Seek bipartisan support for repeal In any 2,800-page law, there are bound to be some provisions that are both popular and workable. Those that work would certainly be preserved. But the real wallop of ObamaCare is coming, and David Axelrod was wrong when he said on Meet the Press on Sunday: “I think that health care, over time, is going to become more popular.” He echoed comments from Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who actually wrote the health law, as he tried to calm his angry constituents at a meeting in Montana by saying, "Mark my words: Several years from now,…
Read moreMay 12, 2010 02:01 PM
Patients as Partners in Preventive Care I don’t think there is any question that preventive care, wellness programs, and early diagnosis and treatment are valuable and that our system needs to move much more in this direction than in continuing to pay more and more to treat people after they become acutely ill. Nonetheless, I am concerned that the health overhaul law will curtail many of these programs that are already showing positive results. The law will lead employers to focus more on following the rules set by Washington than in continuing to develop and enhance programs with demonstrated…
Read moreMay 3, 2010 04:47 PM
Foster's Report Validates Fears Medicare Actuary Rick Foster is a respected, non-partisan analyst, and his report on the health overhaul law is a big deal because it shows that many of the promises made by the law’s proponents will be broken. Foster shows that businesses and families will face higher premiums, millions of people will lose their current coverage, seniors will have difficulty accessing care, and health spending will increase. His analysis gives credence to the fears that led the majority of the American people to oppose passage of the law. Foster’s analysis already is having an impact on decisions regarding…
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