Grace-marie turner biography

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 has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector.

  • She testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior government officials, governors, and state legislators on health policy.
  •  She was named by the Speaker of the House in 2013 to serve as a member of the Long Term Care Commission.
  • Previously, Grace-Marie served for a three-year term on the National Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and she served as a member of the
    Medicaid Commission, making recommendations to modernize and improve Medicaid.

She has been published in hundreds of major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on hundreds of radio and television programs. She is a co-author of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America, published by HarperCollins in 2011, and editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform. Grace-Marie speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the Gregorian University at the Vatican.

Grace-Marie 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 policy recommendations.
She received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Promotion of Consumer Driven Health Care from Consumer Health World. In the mid-1990s, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. For 12 years, she was president of

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    • Marie C. Turner '09

    Marie Celeste Turner '09 enrolled at MIT in 1905 along with her brother Henry C. Turner, Jr. '09, the second early case of black siblings attending MIT since Charles S. Dixon ‘98 and John B. Dixon ’99.

    Like Robert R. Taylor ’92, the first known black student at MIT, Turner studied Architecture (Course IV). Her academic performance, however, was poor, likely due to illness. Both she and her brother both dropped out of MIT by 1907, though later identified as Class of 1909 alumni.

    Turner became a Boston public school teacher. She and her sister Grace B. Turner, also a teacher, made and collected traditional “peddler dolls”. During the late 1960s, they published a popular four-volume series titled Peddler Dolls: Portraying Cryes of Old London and Itinerant Merchants of Early America (Johnson Duplicating Service).

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    School:School of Architecture and Planning

    Department:Architecture

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    Collection:Marie C. Turner, Roots and Exponents 1875-1920, Students, Women

      Grace-marie turner biography

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    • Galen Institute

    Non-profit public policy research organization

    The Galen Institute is an American non-profit research organization that focuses on market-based policy solutions in health care. According to its mission statement, it works to promote “public debate and education about proposals that support individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and innovation in the health sector.” The Institute was founded in 1996 by Grace-Marie Turner (nee, Arnett) in the aftermath of the national debate in 1993–94 over health policy legislation proposed by then President Bill Clinton.

    History

    The Galen Institute created the Health Policy Consensus Group in 1993 to convene market-based policy experts to develop health policy reform proposals.  The Consensus Group’s first statement, “A Vision for Consumer-Directed Health Reform," was released in 1994 and led to a conference in the Hart Senate Office Building in 1996, “A Fresh Approach to Health Care Reform,” featuring 14 Consensus Group participants.  The presentations were later published in a peer-reviewed book, “Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform” (University of Michigan Press, 1999).

    The Galen Institute has been engaged in major health policy debates since its inception, including re-authorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, creation of a prescription drug benefit for Medicare, and educating the debate about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Several Consensus Group participants co-authored a book about the ACA, “Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America” (HarperCollins, 2011). The Galen Institute also filed amicus briefs in U.S. Supreme Court challenging to the health care law.

    The Institute also has led in producing the Health Care Choices 20/20 proposal which 82 organizations have signed to of

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