galen institute semiannual report: july - december 2012
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Galen Institute Semiannual Report
July – December 2012
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Three strikes and you’re out? Not us! No way! We must never give up in the fight for freedom and liberty! We have a huge task ahead of us to preserve our freedom and the quality of health care in America, and we have new plans underway.
Changes to the health overhaul law are inevitable, and it is vital that those of us who understand the law and its implications remain fully engaged. Several egregious provisions already have been repealed, and the more the American people learn about how the law impacts them, the more they will demand change.
And we must stay equally focused on advancing the right kind of reform. Each time a change is made, an opportunity is presented to move policy away from centralized government control and toward free-market policies.
Galen has played a critical role in helping our colleagues in the health policy community unite around key principles for health reform. Now we must expand this core group of policy experts to build a larger network to support the next phase of health reform. This calls for a new coalition to deploy new energy and resources to educate a wider circle of citizens about patient-friendly solutions in health reform.
Thankfully, there is growing consensus about the issues that must be addressed, especially the rising cost of health coverage and health care. We will build on those issues where there is a consensus on reform — portability of insurance, help for the uninsured, competition to control costs, and returning power over decisions to consumers. The task before us is to build a larger coalition and help educate many more people to join the battle and ensure our voices are heard.
Our two-part strategy will:
Facilitate a bipartisan conversation• about sensible, free-market policies. We will work with the policy community, the media, legislators, state officials, and interest organizations to build renewed support for market-based policy changes.
Launch the Pro Patient Network• to redouble other outreach efforts by engaging a wider circle of allies. We will create this expanded network to educate the public and candidates about fresh, free-market policy ideas and about the risks that the current legislation presents to our economy and to our health sector.
The political stalemate in Washington means there are major roadblocks to changing the law. But a lot can — and must — be done to delay, defund, and begin to dismantle ObamaCare. We must continue working toward health policies that are right for America.
Despite the obstacles we face now, people still want to hear our message. We continue to produce commentaries, papers, social media updates, our popular email alerts, do radio and television interviews, briefings, and promote our best-selling book, Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America.
The Galen Institute has been instrumental in helping the American people understand there is a better path for health reform. We will continue to promote ideas through our intensive communications programs, fact-driven research, aggressive educational programs, and extensive relationships with policymakers. We are putting more information than ever into the hands of our allies in the freedom movement: state legislators and grassroots groups, as well as doctors, associations, businesses, religious liberty groups, think tanks, and the legal community.
So much is at stake! This law just won’t work, and we are ready with fresh ideas for patient-centered reform to fix the very real problems in our health sector.
This report summarizes highlights of our activities over the last six months. Your friendship and encouragement are vital to our work, and we thank you for your support. We look forward to working with you as we carry this battle forward in support of freedom, free people, and free markets!
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
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Publications
Our commentaries on medical innovation, health insurance exchanges, health costs, and many other health policy issues appeared in top news outlets around the country over the last six months, including Investor’s Business Daily, New York Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Orange County Register, and U.S. News and World Report.
In addition, we produced more than 25 commentaries for National Review Online and Grace-Marie Turner’s regular column on Forbes.com, Health Matters. We also published more than 15 posts to our Galen blog and introduced a new product in our email lineup, the Pro Patient Minute.
We also released a paper on the success of private competition in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program, “Part D is still working.”
Speeches
We delivered more than 35 speeches at events across the country hosted by organizations such as The Business Council, the Council of State Manufacturers Association, Docs4PatientCare, Georgia Public Policy Foundation, and The Ronald Reagan Lecture Series, the Pioneer Institute, and the Association of Washington Business. We discussed topics ranging from the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health law and Medicaid reform to the impact of ObamaCare on physicians and free-market reform solutions.
Galen In the News
Grace-Marie appeared several times on FOX Business’ Varney & Co., and was also interviewed on MONEY with Melissa Francis. She gave more than 30 radio interviews to regional and nationally syndicated programs including The Mark Reardon Show, The Drew Mariani Show, Butler on Business, The Small Business Advocate, and Istook Live!
Articles that featured Galen’s work and quoted our scholars were featured in more than 40 news outlets reaching more than 53 million readers, including Human Events, The Washington Times, Kaiser Health News, Austin American-Statesman, and Politico.
Coalitions and Events
Ahead of the November elections, we hosted a bipartisan briefing in Tampa, Florida, featuring policy experts and members of Congress who discussed the problems in our health sector that must be fixed so health care and coverage can be more affordable and accessible. Our speakers explained how elected officials, candidates, and voters can engage in a positive conversation over health reform going forward.
We continued our monthly state leaders conference call series, jointly hosted with the State Policy Network and the Institute for Policy Innovation, with sessions focused on health insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, and state concerns about the health law.
We co-hosted, with the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation, monthly policy briefings on Capitol Hill for congressional staffers, discussing Medicare, the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling on ObamaCare, comparative effectiveness research, and other topics in the news. Additional coalition activities included meetings of the Health Policy Consensus Group, the Repeal Coalition, and numerous local and state activists groups.
Galen staff participated in more than 100 meetings, policy briefings, roundtable discussions, and conference calls to discuss problems with implementation of the health law and patient-centered reform ideas with legislators, health industry executives, and business leaders.
New Media and Social Networking
Galen’s following on Twitter increased 15% and several leading policymakers and opinion leaders tweeted about our work, including Rep. Michele Bachmann and Steve Forbes. Our Facebook fan base rose 22% and we will soon reach 10,000 video views on our YouTube channel!
ExECuTIvE SuMMARy: JuLy – DECEMBER 2012
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JuLy
The Supreme Court’s shocking decision on the health overhaul law left many Americans confused — with 45% thinking that the court had either struck down the law or were unsure. Our July commentaries, media interviews, speeches, and events focused on educating the public about the law that is still very much in place and the consequences for our economy and our health sector if it is allowed to stand. We also worked to help people understand the free-market, patient-centered alternative proposals we offer. The Galen Institute was ready for the intense debate to come over the next several months, providing the tools and information Americans need to revive policies that support free markets and free people.
AuGuST
Our briefing in Tampa was a big success, with surprising agreement from our speakers that we CAN have a bipartisan conversation on health reform. Three leading physician-legislators in the House of Representatives — Rep. Tom Price, chair of the Republican Policy Committee, Rep. Michael Burgess, chair of the Congressional Health Care Caucus, and Rep. Phil Gingrey, co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus — were joined by Len Nichols, George Mason University professor of health policy and Galen’s Grace-Marie Turner for a lively and productive discussion.
Our book, Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America, hit #4 in August on The Washington Post’s list of non-fiction bestsellers! The health overhaul law is like a freight train heading toward our economy and health sector, and this book gives people the tools they need to explain its dangers to family and friends and why it must be stopped.
SEPTEMBER
A record number of speaking requests took us from Washington State to Florida, Georgia to Illinois, and lots of places in between, to talk with business leaders, physicians’ groups, and state legislators, all of whom were getting anxious about ObamaCare’s looming deadlines. Our writings explained why we should all be worried.
The highlight of the month was traveling to Boston for an awards dinner where Grace-Marie and AEI’s Bob Helms were honored to win the prestigious Better Government award from the Pioneer Institute — a terrific Massachusetts-based think tank that works to advance public policy solutions based on free-market principles, individual liberty and responsibility, and effective, limited, and accountable government. We are grateful for the attention the award has brought to our paper on the crucially important issue of reform of Medicare and Medicaid’s treatment of dual-eligible beneficiaries.
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oCToBER
We were engaged every day and every hour to educate voters about ObamaCare and to offer a better path for the future. Opposition to the health law continued unabated, with the majority of Americans in concert with those who rallied outside the Supreme Court earlier this year chanting “Strike it down!” In October, our work focused on analyzing the consequences of the law through speeches, papers, media interviews, op-eds, and outreach to new audiences across the country.
NovEMBER
The November 6 election results left us reeling — no doubt about it. ObamaCare IS wrong for America, and the American people know it. Much work remains to be done here. And we are ready!
Grace-Marie traveled to London over Thanksgiving and met with several of our market-oriented think tank colleagues who are trying to push the National Health Service toward more patient-friendly policies. She saw ever more evidence there that a centrally controlled, government-run health care system simply is not compatible with a growing, prosperous, Information-Age economy.
DECEMBER
December was a time for regrouping. The election was not a referendum on ObamaCare — for all the reasons Grace-Marie explains in her Forbes piece — yet we found that resistance was as strong as ever to the high costs, massive new spending, and mandates the law brings.
The battlefront moved to the states and to efforts in Congress to delay, defund, dismantle and do strict oversight of the law. Already the CLASS Act (“a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of”) was repealed in the Fiscal Cliff legislation. We provided policy guidance for public officials, including numerous leaders in the states, to chart a new path to solve the very real problems in our health sector and put doctors and patients, not government bureaucrats, in charge of decisions.
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JuLy
Publications
Our commentaries were featured in dozens of publications in July, including:
Medicaid patients deserve dignity of private insurance • U.S. News and World Report: Debate Club
Now, repeal ObamaCare • Orange County Register
A ‘defined contribution’ model is a key building block • for free market plans Human Events
With key CEO support gone, ObamaCare may be • easier to redo Investor’s Business Daily
Rasmussen has it wrong • GOP USA
U.S. at risk of losing edge in medical innovation • San Antonio Express-News
Forbes.com published two pieces in Grace-Marie Turner’s regular Health Matters column: “Seeking to preserve ObamaCare, Chief Justice Roberts eviscerated it,” and “How much is the ObamaCare mandate going to cost you,” which was shared on Twitter by CEO Steve Forbes.
We contributed four commentaries to National Review Online: “Eternal vigilance for religious liberty,” “Marx brothers fiction,” “Poll: ObamaCare still a huge issue for the voters this fall,” and “Good luck finding a doctor under ObamaCare.”
Speeches
Grace-Marie spoke about the Supreme Court ruling on the health overhaul law and the future of health care at several events in July, including:
The Supreme Court’s ObamaCare Ruling: What Does • It All Mean? hosted by the Cato Institute
ObamaCare: Then and Now, hosted by Crossroads • GPS and the American Action Network
Alliance of Specialty Medicine Advocacy Conference•
Tea Party Patriots Training Conference•
Galen In the News
Grace-Marie was a guest on two FOX Business programs: Varney & Co., where she discussed how ObamaCare will consolidate the health care industry; and MONEY with Melissa Francis, where she was interviewed about the Congressional Budget Office study on the health overhaul law.
Grace-Marie discussed the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the health law on several radio programs including The Mark Reardon Show, America’s Healthcare Advocate, Butler on Business, and The Small Business Advocate.
We also gave interviews to CNS News and The Fiscal Times, and our work was cited in dozens of commentaries, including:
More legal challenges to ACA on way • Politico Pro
Surprise cost of ObamaCare • The Washington Times
ObamaCare: Tax versus penalty • American Thinker
Events and Meetings
Our State Leaders Call featured Nina Owcharenko, Ilya Shapiro, Michael Cannon, and Marie Sanderson, who discussed the Supreme Court Ruling on the health law. Galen co-hosts this series with the Institute for Policy Innovation and the State Policy Network.
Doug Holtz-Eakin and Nina Owcharenko spoke at “The Court Has Spoken: How Will the Private Sector and States Respond,” our July briefing for Congressional staffers, co-hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation.
Grace-Marie attended “An evening with Senator Rand Paul,” an event of The American Spectator Foundation’s Saturday Evening Club series on July 24.
We participated in two meetings of the Repeal Coalition and the Wednesday meeting of Americans for Tax Reform.
Grace-Marie attended the U.S. Chamber of Commerce event for Diana Furchtgott-Roth’s new book, Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America.
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AuGuST
Publications
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published Grace-Marie Turner’s op-ed about Medicare reform, “Stop demonizing Ryan and get something done.”
Grace-Marie’s regular column on Forbes.com featured her commentary on “The real tragedy of ObamaCare has yet to be felt by the poor,” which has been viewed more than 44,400 readers.
We contributed five posts to National Review Online, some of which were also featured on RealClearPolitics:
Violating the DNA of our culture•
Not reforming Medicare is not an option•
Spending $716 billion, twice•
More ObamaCare fiction•
A transformative moment•
We posted four commentaries to our Galen Institute blog, with the latest explaining how “The left is on defense on Medicare.”
Speeches
Grace-Marie spoke about Medicare reform, the impact of the health law on women, the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare, and the future of health policy in America at numerous events in August, including:
Election Special Report Series, hosted by the • Bipartisan Policy Center and The Hill
GOPAC 2012 State and Local Summit•
Woman Up! Pavilion, hosted by the YG Network•
The Hill’s• Healthcare Town Hall Meeting
Council of State Manufacturers Association • Annual Conference
We also facilitated dozens of meetings with colleagues, and we attended several additional meetings to discuss new initiatives and health policy ideas with government officials, industry leaders, member associations, and other think tanks.
Galen In the News
Grace-Marie appeared twice on FOX Business’ Varney & Co. program. In New York, she talked about the health law’s impact on employers, and she set the record straight about Medicare claims during an interview at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Grace-Marie gave a dozen radio interviews in August to regional shows and nationally syndicated programs. She talked about Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, Medicare, the impact of the health law on small business, and other health policy issues on shows including The Glenn Beck Program, Small Business Advocate, Sandy Rios in the Morning, The Pat Campbell Show, and Butler on Business.
We also talked with reporters from Accuracy in Media, National Journal, and WebMD, and our work was cited in numerous media articles, including:
How the Affordable Care Act reduces our liberty • Forbes
Washington bestsellers • The Washington Post
Health reform consensus seen possible • MedPage Today
The GOP’s fight for the female vote • FOX Business
Video news: Reps. Burgess and Price at RNC say • Dems can’t save ACA Modern Healthcare
Events
We hosted a briefing on “Can we have a bipartisan conversation on health reform?” at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Business leaders, political candidates, and consumers who attended our briefing gained new insights into the solid and substantive agreement on health reform issues from our knowledgeable speakers: Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD, Rep. Tom Price, MD, Rep. Michael Burgess, MD, and health policy professor Len Nichols, PhD.
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SEPTEMBER
Speeches
Grace-Marie Turner spoke at numerous events in September about the dangers of the health overhaul law and ideas for patient-centered reform, including:
Association of Washington Business 2012 Policy • Summit in Cle Elum, Washington
Movement Is Life 2012 National Caucus on • Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health Disparities in Washington, DC
Georgia Public Policy Foundation 2012 Legislative • Policy Forum in Atlanta, Georgia
Better Government Competition 2012 Awards • Dinner: Election 2012 & The American Experiment in Boston, Massachusetts
Docs4PatientCare Annual Meeting in Crystal • City, Virginia
Independent Physicians Network Annual Meeting in • Springfield, Illinois
Events and Meetings
Our September State Leaders Call featured a keynote presentation from Utah Governor Gary Herbert about the dangers and problems with further Medicaid expansion. This monthly series is co-hosted by the Galen Institute, State Policy Network, and Institute for Policy Innovation.
The Health Policy Series for Capitol Hill staffers continued with a look at “Setting the Record Straight on Medicare,” featuring speakers Robert Moffit, Ph.D. and Joseph Antos, Ph.D. This series is jointly hosted by the Galen Institute, American Enterprise Institute, and The Heritage Foundation.
Grace-Marie attended “Fiscal sanity and political success: Canada proves you can have it all,” hosted by American Enterprise Institute and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Grace-Marie participated in two meetings of the Repeal Coalition, and attended dozens of meetings with physicians and business leaders to discuss the next stage of the health reform debate.
Publications
FOX Business published Grace-Marie’s commentary on “How ObamaCare could harm the 47%.”
Grace-Marie’s column on Forbes.com featured her commentary on “Why Barack’s silence on ObamaCare?”
We contributed seven commentaries to The Corner blog on National Review Online:
Trying to love ObamaCare?•
On health care, Clinton skirts the facts•
Calm down, ObamaCare foes•
What really happened with RomneyCare•
The White House’s Medicare hypocrisy•
Seniors in eight states face biggest Medicare cuts•
Boos subside as Ryan explains the truth•
We posted two commentaries on the Galen blog: “A bipartisan conversation on health reform,” and “Galen Institute and American Enterprise Institute winning paper featured at 2012 Better Government Competition Awards Ceremony.”
Galen in the News
Grace-Marie gave interviews to nationally syndicated programs The Drew Mariani Show, NPR’s All Things Considered Solutions Series, and others.
Our scholars were quoted in numerous articles about ObamaCare’s burdensome infrastructure, Medicare’s physician shortage, and other issues by news outlets across the country, including:
‘ObamaCare’ foes fear GOP losses • Politico Pro
ObamaCare increases demands • Portage Daily Register
Ten things everyone should read about ObamaCare • The Heartlander
‘ObamaCare’: What is Romney’s alternative • The Week
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We published a new paper on “Part D is still working,” which shows how the Medicare prescription drug program is saving taxpayers and seniors money through competition and consumer choice.
We introduced a new product in our email alerts lineup, the Pro Patient Minute, which offers fact-filled updates and resources with the latest information on the dangers of ObamaCare and the right solutions for health reform. Our October dispatches included information on how ObamaCare harms the most vulnerable Americans and why the law is a government take-over of our health sector. You can sign up for these free updates at www.galen.org.
Grace-Marie Turner published two commentaries in her Forbes.com column: “The avalanche of new ObamaCare rules will come in January, 2013,” and “AEI Scholar J.D. Kleinke pilloried by conservative policy experts over New York Times op-ed.”
We contributed two commentaries to National Review Online: “The Commonwealth Fund makes it up, again,” and “An early taste of ObamaCare’s medicine.”
We published three posts to our Galen blog: “Healthcare reform… the job’s not done,” “Biden against the Bishops,” and “The Determinators: Whoever pays holds the power to decide.”
And we continued to distribute our Galen Guides, a series of quick-reference pocket cards on policy issues, to state legislators, Congressional staffers, and industry leaders.
Events
Our October Health Policy Series event featured Grace-Marie and Nina Owcharenko of The Heritage Foundation, who talked with Capitol Hill staffers about “Hot Topics on the Campaign Trail.”
We also participated in the annual Health Sector Assembly in Sundance, Utah.
We attended several additional events and meetings in October to talk about the impact of the health overhaul law and free-market solutions for reform with business leaders, members of Congress, and fellow policy experts.
Galen in the News
Grace-Marie joined Varney & Co. on FOX Business to talk about employers offering workers more control over their health benefits through defined contributions.
She also gave several radio interviews on nationally syndicated and regional programs including Steve Crowley’s American Scene, Butler on Business, City on a Hill, and The Small Business Advocate.
We spoke with reporters from Politico and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and our work was cited in a number of articles, including:
Democrats and Republicans differ on Medicaid fix • NPR
Study: No healthcare savings with ACOs • MedPage Today
‘Determinators’ DVD takes swipe at ‘ObamaCare’ • Politico
Thompson misleads on Medicare Part D • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Speeches
Grace-Marie moderated a roundtable on “Consumerism and Healthcare” with leading CEOs at The Business Council in Chicago.
Grace-Marie, along with other health policy experts and think tank colleagues, was featured in an important new documentary produced by the Tea Party Patriots, The Determinators: Whoever Pays Holds the Power to Decide. The film clearly shows how ObamaCare’s government control will rob us of our freedom and send our health sector into decline.
Grace-Marie spoke about the future of health reform at the Round Rock Chamber of Commerce 2012 Healthcare Forum.
She also spoke to the Princeton College Republicans, Tea Party Patriots, Baltimore Association of Health Underwriters, and on Third Way’s teleconference on “The Senior Vote: How Medicare Part D Matters.”
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Publications
Grace-Marie Turner’s Forbes.com column, “The ObamaCare battlefront shifts to the states,” was also featured in RealClearPolitics.
Our commentary on “What the election means for ObamaCare” was published by National Review Online and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
The Heartlander featured Grace-Marie’s commentary on “Obama’s law is poised to hurt those it was supposed to help.”
We submitted two commentaries to The Wall Street Journal: “The 5 R’s of repeal and replace,” and “ObamaCare’s sticker shock.”
We published four posts the Galen blog:
ObamaCare creates the “public option”•
What the election means...•
Three more states approve ballot initiatives to block • health care mandate
Resisting ObamaCare’s exchanges•
Galen in the News
Grace-Marie was interviewed about ObamaCare, the elections, and health insurance exchanges on several regional and nationally syndicated radio programs, including The Mark Reardon Show, The Small Business Advocate, and Butler on Business.
She also spoke about these issues with journalists from publications such as Politico, The Washington Times, The Hill, and Kaiser Health News. Our work was cited in numerous publications across the country, including:
Election will decide health law’s future • Kaiser Health News
Health care law wins reprieve with Obama re-election • The Washington Times
Elections force nation’s governors to face reality • on ObamaCare Tulsa World
Time’s short, but ObamaCare foes press on in court • Politico
Meetings
Grace-Marie participated in meetings of the Repeal Coalition, in addition to other meetings on Capitol Hill.
Grace-Marie participated in and spoke at the Conservative Leadership Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia, on November 15.
Grace-Marie met with several center-right think tank colleagues in London in November, including:
Gail Beer of 2020health.org•
Graham Satchwell, an expert on drug counterfeiting•
Andrew Haldenby and Thomas Cawston of REFORM•
Grace-Marie attended a Heritage Foundation reception for new members of Congress on November 30.
We also participated in numerous meetings with health industry executives and policy experts to discuss new initiatives for market-based health reform.
Speeches
Grace-Marie gave several speeches in November:
Tea Party Patriots nationwide teleconference on • the election results and ObamaCare
Healthcare Leadership Council’s Part D • Tele-Town Hall
Southern Medical Association Healthcare Summit • in Nashville, Tennessee
ALEC Workshop on “Medicare-Medicaid Coordination: • State Integration for Dual Eligibles” in Washington, DC
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Grace-Marie Turner spoke about the health policy landscape to newly elected members of Congress at a New Members Orientation hosted by The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, and attended a dinner in honor of the freshmen featuring Steve Forbes.
We connected with members of our Pro Patient Network during a conference call hosted by the Southwest Ohio Liberty Leaders about implementation of ObamaCare.
Publications
Grace-Marie’s commentary, “ObamaCare: Pain 2.0,” forecasts the sticker shock that will hit when people see the price tag for their ObamaCare insurance. The article was published by the New York Post.
Forbes magazine published Grace-Marie’s commentary on grassroots opposition to implementation of the health law, “A resistance movement rises up against ObamaCare.”
Grace-Marie’s column on Forbes.com featured her article, “In the fight at the fiscal cliff, don’t throw the valuables over the side.”
The Heartlander published our commentary on “ObamaCare battlefront shifts to the states.”
We published two posts to the Galen blog: “Yes, you can!” and “More reasons for states to say ‘No’ to ObamaCare exchanges.”
Galen in the News
Grace-Marie talked about health exchanges, implementation of the health law, and other health policy issues on several nationally syndicated radio programs in December, including Istook Live, Real Wealth Weekly, and City on a Hill. She was also interviewed about state resistance to ObamaCare on Atlanta’s Butler on Business.
Events and Meetings
Our December State Leaders Call featured guest speakers Jim Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Tom Miller of the American Enterprise Institute. They spoke to the group about state and federal health exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
Grace-Marie participated in a Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Liberty and Healthcare: Compatibility in the Twenty-First Century?” in San Diego, California.
Grace-Marie facilitated a meeting of the Health Policy Consensus Group and a number of meetings on Capitol Hill to discuss the rocky road to implementing ObamaCare.
She also participated in a briefing on biosimilars about the challenges in duplicating biologic pharmaceuticals.
The Galen Institute hosted its annual meeting of the Board of Trustees on December 17 and celebrated the Christmas season at a party with Consensus Group colleagues.
Grace-Marie attended a reception hosted by members of Congress honoring Chairman Dan Lungren for his eighteen years of service to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Grace-Marie attended the Kemp Leadership Awards Dinner in Washington, DC, featuring speeches by Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Marco Rubio.
We attended several additional meetings in December to discuss new initiatives and health policy ideas with government officials, industry leaders, member associations, and other think tanks.
DECEMBER
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