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Congratulations to David Gratzer for The Cure’s inclusion in the NCF’s Top Ten Books That Drive Debate!
“David Gratzer, a Canadian psychiatrist and fellow at the libertarian Manhattan Institute, does an artful job of concisely laying out what ails the U.S. system and how things got to be that way. And his prescriptions for fixing it are not only well-reasoned, but also have the political benefit of drawing strands from both liberal and conservative plans.”
Stephen Pearlstein
Washington Post
“The Cure is a must read for all students of health care policy. Dr. Gratzer correctly diagnoses the U.S. health care system’s problems and proposes workable solutions to fix them. His ideas will help reign in costs while, at the same time, preserve necessary incentives for quality-of-life enhancing innovations.”
John F. Cogan, Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
“David Gratzer’s well written book should be in the reading list of anyone interested in health care reform. In five-sixths of the U.S economy, we look to markets as an organizing mechanism; in the one-sixth of the economy represented by health care, public policy has frustrated markets, with adverse consequences for cost, access, and quality. Gratzer’s capitalist manifesto is a shot in the arm; with it, the much that’s right with American health care can grow.”
R. Glenn Hubbard
Dean and Russell L. Carson Prof. of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
“The caduceus is an apt symbol for medicine, given the bureaucratic snake pit the American health care system has become. Dr. David Gratzer skillfully wields Occam’s razor to shave away the Byzantine rhetoric and show us that the cure for health care comes in the simplest of formulas—free markets, less government meddling, and a healthy dose of capitalism.”
Governor Bill Owens, Colorado
“Dr. David Gratzer is uniquely qualified to diagnose and provide a treatment regimen for the US health care system’s problems. In this book he performs this function for us, does it with his usual acumen and clarity. He leads us by the hand through the labyrinth of legal, institutional and regulatory events that brought to the point where, at least to some, we are in a health crisis that can only be solved by further movement away from the market and toward a universal centrally controlled system. He thoroughly debunks the notion we can improve the US health care system by becoming more like our neighbors to the North. After taking us there, he shows us why these same legal, institutional, and regulatory events are largely responsible for our predicament and that the popular solution of more of the same is not the answer. He convincingly demonstrates that the only way out is less regulation of, and more freedom for, the providers and customers of health care. This book should be read by anyone involved, or with the hope or potential to be involved, in determining health care policy.”
Tom Saving
Director, Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University
“Excellent addition to the emerging call for empowering patients rather than government bureaucrats with control of the health care dollar, written by someone with an expert view from the inside!”
Scott W. Atlas, MD
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Prof., Stanford University School of Medicine
“Revolutionary but useful, readable tomes on public policy such as health care don’t often come from gentlemen wearing white lab coats. The Cure is a notable exception.”
Mark Milke
Victoria Times Colonist
“Gratzer’s book tackles hot-button issues, presenting the problems and potential solutions in plain language, often with anecdotes drawn from personal experience. In this way, he makes examining the often-confusing pathways of health policy and practice more like a story–deft use of a skill no doubt honed to effectiveness as a long-time practitioner of psychiatry.”
David Solvo
The Heartland Institute
“Gratzer’s accessible account is filled with wonderful anecdotes and fascinating historical details.”
Elise Gould
The Chronicle of Higher Education
