GRANT PROPOSAL RECORD
Galen lnstitute
ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 320010
Alexandria, V422320

CONTACT:

Ms. Grace-Marie Turner

AMOUNT REQUESTED:

$150,000

STAFF RECOMMENDATION:

$150,000

PROJECT TITLE:

To support general operations

BOARD MEMBERS AFFILIATED
WITH REQUEST:

Mitchell

STAFF:

Dan Schmidt

MEETING DATE:

8t1912014

PROPOSAL ID#:

20140679

 BACKGROUND: The Galen lnstitute requests a grant in the amount of $150,000 in support of its public
education activities promoting heath care reform.
Under the leadership of Grace Marie Turner the Galen lnstitute has long been and continues to carry the
fight to persuade policy makers and the public at large to consrder supporting a strategy of repeal and
replace with respect to ObamaCare. lts public education effort in the coming year will promote tactics
delaying, defunding, and chopping away at key provisions of the law. To date there have been 41
changes made to ObamaCare. Sixteen of those have been enacted by Congress.

To that end in the year ahead Galen will continue its schedule of briefings on Capitol Hill. Again, this year
Galen will co-host with the American Enterprise lnstitute and the Heritage Foundation its briefings for
Congressional and Senate staffers. Grace Marie and her colleagues have also been working hard to help
explain to governors across the country to resist expanding their Medicaid programs. Galen has helped
them by outlining ideas and strategies to transform their Medicaid programs around the principles of
competition and choice.
Galen purchased a website from the Manhattan lnstitute and e-21. lt has relaunched it under the title of
ObamaGareWatch and styled it after the Drudge Report. The site will serve as an aggregator of promarket health reform ideas. lt will offer commentary from free market health care experts as well as
polling data, state-based news and opinion, and a section on alternatives to ObamaCare.
Finally, Galen is prepared to submit amicus briefs before the courts on the continuing legal challenges
against Obamacare. lt submitted two briefs this year in Halbigv Sebelius challenging the illegal
distribution of subsidies through federally-established health exchanges.
A grant of $150,000 is requested.

BUDGET INFORMATION: Galen's total operations budget amounts to $632,250. ln total Randolph,
Scaife and Searle have contributed $250,000 in funding support.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Nearing its 20th year of operation the Galen lnstitute has been a reliable,
informative, and persuasive voice in public debate over social policy and economic issues. lts clever and
powerful arguments on behalf of free market principles, limited government and individual liberty have
moved policy makers to rethink or become more convicted on various significant policy issues related to
healthcare reform.
Most noteworthy over the past twenty years has been Galen's work in the healthcare reform area. First
on HillaryCare, and for the past five years on ObamaCare, Galen's good sense, policy expertise, and
steadfast defense of the market ideals, have served as a center around which like-minded health care
reformers opposed to ObamaCare could rally.

Galen's reconfigured website should be of considerable help in its difficult task of building and holding a
consensus amongst policy makers and the citizenry to modify ObamaGare and eventually bring about tis
repeal.

A grant of $150,000 is recommended.

 Galen lnstitute
Grant History
Project Title

Grant Amount
50,000

812012013 Regular

125,000

812112012 Regular

$75,000

5ll0l20l

$40,000

ll19l20l0

To support general operations

$I

To support general operations

$

To support

a

public education campaign

To support the activities of the Health Reform Initiative
To support public education about health-care reform

Approved Fund

I

Regular
Regular

$100,000

811812009 Regular

To support the Entitlement Reform Project

$25,000

212412009 Regular

To support the Center for Consumer Driven Health

$25,000

811712004 Regular

To support the Institute's work on health care reform

$50,000

2/2512003 Regular

To support the Health Policy Consensus Group project

$25,000

ll/1312001 Regular

To support the Health Policy Consensus Group Project
and related activities

$25,000

llll4l2000

Regular

To support educational activities about free-market
health-care reform

$25,000

lll16l1999

Regular

Care

Grand Totals (11 items)

s665,000

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