David Gratzer

David Gratzer is a practising psychiatrist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he specializes in medical topics such as medical reform, prescription drug policy, and insuring the medically uninsured.

He is an author of two books 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 The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Encounter Books, October 2006).

He is often quoted on health matters across North America, 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.

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.

He has also testified before the US congress on the Health Care Choice Act.