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Dec 19, 2007

Grace-Marie Turner's Bio

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 that 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.

  • 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 in Rome.

  • She testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior government officials, governors, and state legislators on health policy.

  • Grace-Marie served for 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.

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 is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform and produces a widely-read weekly electronic newsletter, Health Policy Matters.  She has been published in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, she has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on hundreds of radio and television programs in the U.S.  She also 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 Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm.  Her early career was in politics and journalism, where she received numerous awards for her writings on politics and economics.

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Joel White's Bio

Joel White is president of JCWhite Consulting, focusing on health and tax issues, and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Galen Institute. Most recently, he was the Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee where he was responsible for legislation involving Medicare reform and prescription drugs, HIPAA, insurance, and health tax issues. Prior to joining the committee, he was a Legislative Assistant for Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-PA) where he was responsible for health, retirement, banking and budget issues. He also worked as the Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), where he covered health, economic growth and development and retirement issues. Joel has been a member of the National Economist’s Club for eight years and is co-author of Facts and Figures on Government Finance, which brings together data on public finance at all levels of government, with comparisons of taxing and spending levels spanning a half century.

Brian Lee Crowley's Bio

Brian Lee Crowley joined the Galen Institute as a visiting senior fellow in March 2008. Brian is the founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Atlantic Canada's public policy think tank.

Among his many books and other publications, Brian co-authored two projects on the Canadian health-care system both of which won the Sir Antony Fisher Award. In recognition of his health-care work, he was named to the most influential recent provincial health-care inquiry in Canada, the Alberta Premier's Advisory Council on Health (the Mazankowski Committee). The Council's Chairman, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski, called Brian the "intellectual architect" of the committee's report. He is a much sought-after media commentator on health-care policy and has spoken to scores of national and international conferences in recent years on health-care reform in Canada.

Brian is a frequent commentator on political and economic issues for the CBC, Radio-Canada and many other media. His articles appear in both national newspapers and numerous regional and local newspapers, including regular columns in the largest circulation newspapers in Nova Scotia (the Chronicle-Herald), New Brunswick (the Times & Transcript) and Québec (La Presse, the largest circulation French language daily in North America). He holds degrees from McGill and the London School of Economics, including a doctorate in political economy from the latter. 

 

About the Galen Institute

The Galen Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit, free-market research organization devoted exclusively to health policy. It was founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner to promote a more informed public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and diversity in the health sector.

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