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David Gratzer

David Gratzer
Dr.
David Gratzer
, a physician, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and the L.A. Times. He is often quoted on health matters across North America. He was recently cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as by such media as Fox News and the Kansas City Star. Dr. Gratzer is frequently invited to speak on health reform. He debated Congressman Gil Gutknecht on drug reimportation at the American Enterprise Institute, testified before Congress on the Health Care Choice Act, and keynoted the Long Island Health Care Summit after Senator Hillary Clinton cancelled because of a scheduling conflict. Other recent addresses include: the Couchiching Institute, the Canadian Medical Association, and the National Center for Policy Analysis. He is the author of Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System (ECW Press, 1999), which was awarded the $25,000 Donner Prize for best Canadian public policy book in 2000. Code Blue is now in its fifth printing. He is also the editor of Better Medicine (ECW Press, 2002), a collection of essays from leading health care thinkers in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Why Obama’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster

Why Obama’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster

By David Gratzer | paperback $5.99

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 [...]

The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Paperback)

The Cure

How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Paperback)

By David Gratzer | paperback $17.95

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 [...]

The Cure : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

The Cure

How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

By David Gratzer | hardcover $25.95

The American health care system is in crisis. Skyrocketing costs and increasing bureaucracy have traumatized consumers and doctors alike. In The Cure, Dr. David Gratzer brings a dose of common sense to this over-regulated area of the American economy.