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Director, Health Policy Analysis

Director, Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs

Gail rejoined Consumers Union in December 1985. She has written analyses of various health policy issues ranging from medical savings accounts to the Clinton health care proposal, with a focus on affordability of health care. She has served as director of Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs since 2004. She spent nine years at the Federal Trade Commission in various policy planning and consumer protection roles. Before joining the FTC, she worked for Consumers Union in both the headquarters in Mount Vernon, New York and in the Washington Office. Her first project (1974) was to analyze the various national health insurance bills under consideration in Congress.

Gail lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband, Chris Palmer. She and Chris have three grown daughters.

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