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Grace-Marie Turner
WE Inc. Health Care Advisor 
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a free-market public policy research organization founded in 1995 to promote education on health and tax policy issues. She speaks and writes extensively, focusing on 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 is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, published by the University of Michigan Press. The book describes how tax reform can lead to a better functioning market in the health sector. "It is worth careful reading by our policy makers and by anyone concerned with health care in America," according to Harvard Prof. Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1995-96, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the 14-member National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. From 1996-97, she was a vice president at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., where she developed and implemented strategies to reach new and broader audiences with research, publications, and programs. She also had the responsibility of overseeing Heritage's award-winning web site. For 12 years, Grace-Marie was president of Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm in Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked as a news reporter, where she won numerous-awards for her work, as well as a radio correspondent, association director, presidential campaign adviser, and U.S. Senate press secretary. |
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