Manhattan Institute Scholar

David Gratzer, a physician, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. 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 Dr. Gratzer is "a natural-born economist." David 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, Dr. 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. Dr. 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 on health matters across North America. His writing has graced the pages of more than a dozen newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Weekly Standard. For his essays, Dr. 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).

Dr. Gratzer has recently been cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, as well as by major media outlets across the United States and Canada. He has been interviewed by dozens of the nation's top media hosts and he has delivered keynote addresses at several major industry conferences, including the World Health Congress and the Consumer Driven Health Care Conference. 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.

Dr. 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.

Dr. Gratzer is married and is the proud father of two daughters.

Select Media:

KLIK's, "Jay Kersting Show," 8-08-08
WIBA's "Upfront with Vicki McKenna," 7-23-08
Salem Radio Network's "Dennis Prager Show," 6-26-08 (Click here to listen to this interview)
WNET's "Inside Trenton," 04-05-08 (Click to watch: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Westwood One's "Lars Larson Show," 3-14-08
WIBA's "Upfront with Vicki McKenna," 2-26-08
NewsTalk 1080's "Sound Off Connecticut," 1-31-08
KPCC's "Patt Morrison Show," 01-17-08
WMXR's "Upper Valley Morning News," 12-10-07
Talk Radio Network's "Laura Ingraham Show," 10-01-07
ABC Radio's "Mark Levin Show", 08-03-07
Sirius Satellite Radio's "The Wilkow Majority", 08-03-07
WKXL's "Financial $pectrum with Bill Kearney," 07-12-07
The Mitch Albom Show, 07-11-07
W-NYC's "Brian Lehrer Show," 07-06-07
KCEO's "The Politics of Money," 07-03-07
CHQR's "The World Tonight," 06-29-07
CNBC's "Closing Bell," 06-28-07 (Click here to watch)
National Public Radio's "To The Point," 06-22-07 (To hear this archived program online, click here.)