Grace-Marie Arnett

Ms. Arnett is president of Arnett & Co. and has operated her own consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area for ten years. Ms. Arnett specializes in health policy consulting and has written extensively on health care reform. She focuses on health care financing and incentives to promote a better functioning market for medical services.

Ms. Arnett also is a senior associate with the Domestic Policy Issues Program and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She coordinates the work of the Consensus Group, a group of health policy experts who are developing a market-based approach to health care reform. Ms. Arnett also has advised a presidential commission studying health care policy.

She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs and speaks regularly to audiences throughout the United States. She has had articles published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and in a number of daily newspapers and other periodicals.

Before starting her consulting firm, Ms. Arnett served as executive director of the Washington Psychiatric Society, a professional association of psychiatrists in the Washington, D.C. area. The early part of her career was spent in journalism and politics. During this time, she wrote news and analytical articles focusing on economic and tax policy, politics, and other domestic issues while covering Congress, the White House, and administrative agencies. She won numerous awards for her work as Washington correspondent for the Copley News Service and as a feature writer for the Albuquerque Journal. She also served as Washington correspondent for CBS radio affiliate KMOX and for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

She has been press secretary to Senator Pete V. Domenici, deputy press secretary to the President Ford Campaign in 1976, and a media consultant to the Republican National Committee.

Ms. Arnett received the Marion Chase Memorial Award for public service presented by the D.C. Mental Health Association in 1989. She received the award for continuing service to the patients and professionals of the nation's capital from the District of Columbia in 1986. In addition, she received the outstanding achievement award from the Washington Psychiatric Society in 1984.

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