We bring a unique approach to public policy research, serving as a broker of the ideas of the top experts in the market-based policy community. The Galen Institute, Inc., was founded in 1995 to promote a more informed public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and diversity in the health sector. The Institute's primary focus is sponsoring research and educational programs on the crucial intersection of health and tax policy.
Tax policy is the linchpin of the health care reform debate.
And the tax treatment of health insurance could be the Achilles Heel of major tax reform. Neither can be solved alone, and both can be solved by addressing the two issues together. We believe that health costs can be contained and access to care vastly expanded by joining health reform with tax reform. Rather, health care is too important NOT to be left to the individual consumer in a dynamic and competitive marketplace that provides the best services and the best value to millions of demanding consumers. After years of an intense national debate over health care reform, politicians at all levels of government have produced many counter-productive and even harmful attempts at solutions.