Formerly a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, David Gratzer, is a physician based in Toronto. His 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 Gratzer is "a natural-born economist." Gratzer's most recent book, with Foreword by Milton Friedman, is The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Encounter Books, October 2006).

Previously, Gratzer authored the book 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 and which is now in its fifth printing. Gratzer 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.

He is often quoted in the media on health matters. He 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 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 is married and is the proud father of two daughters.

Select Media:

• WTPL's "Bulldog Live with Brian Tilton", WSJ op-ed Vermont Gives the 'Public Option' a Clinical Trial
• WBAL's "Ron Smith Show", WSJ op-ed Vermont Gives the 'Public Option' a Clinical Trial
• WBAC's "John Batchelor Show", WSJ op-ed Canada Makes a Right Turn
• WBAL, "The C4 Show", Mental health status of AZ shooter Jared Loughner
• WIBA, "Vicki McKenna", Symbolic repeal vote of Obamacare is just the beginning of real healthcare reform
• WBAL, “Saturday's with C4”, Symbolic repeal vote of Obamacare is just the beginning of real healthcare reform
• Corus Radio Network, “Charles Adler Show”
• WRVA, “Doc Thompson”, The danger of allowing government to regulate school lunches

City Journal Articles:

• Getting It Right on Obesity, 10 March 2010
• Making New York’s Private Health Insurance More Affordable, 17 September 2009
• Bigger Is Healthier, 22 July 2009
• Dr. Meddlesome, 27 May 2009
• Health-Care Hardball, 13 May 2009
• ObamaCare, 2 November 2008
• The Audacity of Distortion, 15 October 2008
• Mandates Are Not the Answer, Spring 2008
• Mandates Are Not the Answer, 31 March 2008
• Time to Rechristen SCHIP, 8 February 2008
• Malignant Rumor, 31 October 2007
• The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care, Summer 2007
• Simplisticko, 29 June 2007

Articles/Op-Eds:

• Calorie Counts are a Dud, Frum Forum, 09-12-11
• Education, Incentives Are Best Choices, California Healthline, 09-09-11
• Fat Taxes Go Over Like A Lead Balloon, Washington Times, 07-29-11
• Curves: The Rise and Fall of a Health Care Cover Story, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, 07-25-11
• Cutting The 'Food Desert' Myth Down To Size, Washington Examiner, 07-20-11
• Ryan's Missed Opportunity, National Review Online, 06-15-11
• Health Reform Creates Chaos With 50 States, 50 Sets Of Rules, Investor's Business Daily, 06-01-11
• Vermont Gives the 'Public Option' a Clinical Trial, Wall Street Journal, 05-21-11
• Honey A Better Cure Than Brewer's Vinegar, Washington Times, 05-06-11
• Canada Makes a Right Turn, Wall Street Journal, 05-04-11
• More Articles >>

Blog Postings:

• Cut the Bloat From Obamacare's Insurance Markets, Frum Forum, 04-26-11
• Our Health Is Worsening At A Time When Medicine Has Never Been Better, Kevin MD, 02-15-11
• The "12 Cent Problem", Conservative Home, 01-26-11
• Strategies For Getting Rid of the Law's Worst Parts, Conservative Home, 01-24-11
• Republican Resistance, and Reforming American Health Care, Conservative Home, 01-19-11
• The Future of Obamacare, Republican Resistance, and Reforming American Health Care, Conservative Home, 01-19-11
• Fat Goes Global, Frum Forum, 01-11-11
• When Did the Right Get Pro-Obesity?, Frum Forum, 12-20-10
• The Wrong Recipe for Fixing School Lunches, Frum Forum, 12-06-10
• Want to Lower Health Costs? Start Fighting Fat, Frum Forum, 12-02-10
• More Blog Postings >>

Testimony:

• Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, 6-24-09
• Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, 6-10-09
  Click here to watch David Gratzer give his testimony.
  Following the testimony was a Q & A session. Click to watch Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.
• Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget 7-16-08
• Testimony before the Florida Senate Committee on Health 3-25-08
• Testimony on "The Health Care Choice Act" before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, 6-28-05

Books:

• Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health-Care Will Be a Disaster (Encounter Books, November 2009)
• The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Encounter Books, October 2006)
• Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care (ECW Press, November 2002)
• Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System (ECW Press, September 1999)