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Grace-Marie Turner

President, Galen Institute

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-friendly marketplace in the health sector.

The Galen Institute has been instrumental in promoting health policy initiatives that transfer power over health care decisions from bureaucracies to individuals.

• Grace-Marie was invited to a meeting with President Bush on health savings accounts and spoke on consumer-directed health care at the White House Economic Summit.
  
  
• Grace-Marie was appointed by HHS Secretary Leavitt to serve on the Medicaid Commission, charged by Congress with making recommendations to modernize and improve this program that serves the poor, the disabled, and the elderly.
  
• And she serves as a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Grace-Marie is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, which has served for 12 years as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop health policy recommendations. And she is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, a peer-reviewed book published in 1999 by the University of Michigan Press that lays out the health reform ideas of the Consensus Group.

She also has served as executive director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. Previously, 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.