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.
