Dr. David Gratzer
Leading Health Care Expert
The late Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, wrote that Dr. David Gratzer is "a natural-born economist." Often quoted in the media on health matters, Gratzer has published articles in more than a dozen newspapers and magazines, and he has been cited in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. A leading author, Gratzer has published The Cure and Code Blue, and he is the editor of Better Medicine, a collection of essays from leading health care thinkers in Canada, the United States, and Europe. A physician and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Gratzer’s research interests include consumer-driven health care, Medicare and Medicaid, drug reimportation, and FDA reform.
The late Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, wrote that Dr. David Gratzer is "a natural-born economist." A physician and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Gratzer’s research interests include consumer-driven health care, Medicare and Medicaid, drug reimportation, and FDA reform.
Often quoted in the media on health matters, Gratzer has published articles in more than a dozen newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Weekly Standard. Gratzer won the 2000 Felix A. Morley Journalism Competition, sponsored by George Mason University’s Institute for the Humane Studies. Past winners include James Taranto (The Wall Street Journal) and Jonathan Karl (ABC).
Gratzer has recently been cited in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs, as well as by major media outlets across the United States and Canada. He has testified before Congress, been interviewed by dozens of North America’s top media hosts, and has delivered keynote addresses at several major industry conferences, including the World Health Congress and the Consumer Driven Health Care Conference. Gratzer was also a participant in the 2010 Munk Debates with Senator Bill Frist and Governor Howard Dean.
A leading author, Gratzer's most recent book, with a foreword by Milton Friedman, is The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care. He is also the author of Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System, which was awarded the $25,000 Donner Prize for best Canadian public policy book in 2000. Gratzer also authored the pamphlet, “How Obama’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster”, which was distributed throughout America. Gratzer is the editor of Better Medicine, a collection of essays from leading health care thinkers in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Gratzer is a peer reviewer for numerous publications and organizations: the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the American Journal of Medicine, the Max Bell Foundation, the Pacific Research Institute, and the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Gratzer has M.D. and B.Sc. degrees from the University of Manitoba, and he completed his post-graduate medical training at the University of Toronto. A member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Psychiatry), Gratzer is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
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June 2010The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited economic ideas.
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November 2009Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster
If Barack Obama has his way, the American health care system is headed for a train wreck. In this vital expose, Dr. David Gratzer reveals how a government takeover by Washington will put a massive new bureaucracy between doctors and patients, create rationing, and kill the spirit of innovation that has made American high-tech medicine a world leader in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Examining the realities of existing health care in this country, Dr. Gratzer reveals how basic free market reforms can revive the private system we already have, without ruining the patient/doctor relationship, stifling scientific advances, and further devastating our economy.
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March 2002Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care
This collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating an open-minded approach to such concepts as privatization, two-tier health care, and user fees. Gratzer has assembled a stellar list of authors who invite Canadians to question their confidence in government-managed public health. All Canadians concerned about the state of health care in Canada should read this informative and intelligent collection.
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September 1999Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System
In Code Blue: Reviving Canada’s Health Care System, David Gratzer takes a close look at Canada's health care system—from the overcrowded emergency rooms of Montreal hospitals, to the thriving practices of Canadian doctors who have decided to head south. He explores our misconceptions about the American health care system, analyzes demographic trends, and exposes the emptiness of political debate on the subject. Gratzer argues convincingly that the problems with Medicare stem from its very structure, a structure that will only continue to weaken as Canada’s population grows older.
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