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9:15-10:30 am Salon E
Panelists will discuss how health savings accounts, association health plans, and other health policy solutions may mitigate cost growth and improve quality.
Grace-Marie Turner slides (611 K)
Joseph Newhouse home page at Harvard
Richard Manning, Senior Director, Corporate Policy, Pfizer Inc., moderator
Joseph P. Newhouse
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
Harvard University
Joseph P. Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, is head of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy and directs the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, which administers the PhD program in Health Policy at Harvard. He edits the Journal of Health Economics , is a member of the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine , andhas been a member and vice-chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Newhouse was the first recipient of the David Kershaw Prize of the Association of Public Policy and Management and has received the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research, The Kenneth J. Arrow award, The Zvi Griliches award, and The Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence for various of his writings. In his nonexistent spare time, he likes to play bridge.
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Center for Consumer Driven Health Care
The Galen Institute is focused on two of the most important issues on the
public policy agenda today - health and tax policy. Grace-Marie Turner has
unique experience in both fields, having worked as facilitator of the Health
Policy Consensus Group and as executive director of the National Commission
on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. She has spent her career in policy analysis
and communications, focusing on health and tax issues for more than 20 years
and writes extensively on health policy issues, focusing on incentives to
promote a better functioning private marketplace for health insurance.
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.
The Galen Institute has been instrumental in promoting Health Savings Accounts
and other consumer-friendly ideas that transfer power over health care decisions
from bureaucracies to individuals.
In December of 2004, Grace-Marie was invited by President Bush to speak on
HSAs and consumer-directed health reform at the White House Economic Summit.
She recently was appointed by former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to serve
as a member of the National Advisory Council of Healthcare Research and Quality.
Grace-Marie 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.
She is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, published
by the University of Michigan Press.
In 1995-96, 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 in Washington, D.C.
Her early career was in politics and journalism, where she received numerous
awards for her writings on economics and politics.
