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 is Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster (Encounter Books, 2009)). 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. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ On a quiet Friday afternoon this summer, the central justification for President Obama's health-care overhaul died a quiet death. On that day, a bipartisan coalition in Congress reversed the scheduled Medicare cuts to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2010/07/15/the_coming_obamacare_deficits 145e7593-1ddd-4f42-b2ce-d75a62a66c85 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:01:00 GMT Credit where credit is due: the latest White House argument for health reform is compelling. The administration has figured out how to sell a massive expansion of government as "fiscally conservative." On Thursday, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2010/03/20/the_trillion_dollar_"bargain" a2fd96d0-8f96-4e84-ac16-352d12c86da9 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT Health-care proposals from the White House follow a set pattern. The President identifies a real problem; he talks about the need for bipartisan action; he finally proposes a partisan solution that has been tried so http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2010/02/25/obamas_new_health_care_idea 5c20bec3-5f82-4664-ae4c-94d730f709d4 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT After Massachusetts decidedly elected Scott Brown, there is a temptation for Republicans to hear the message they want to hear, rather than the message that Bay State voters actually sent. With the confetti having just... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2010/02/03/gop_read_your_massachusetts_memo 624f81ea-24d4-4062-9faa-543a1cdf5737 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:32:07 GMT Congress has a shoe fetish. The basic problem with ObamaCare - the core problem - is buried deep in the 1,994 page bill passed by the House of Representatives. More unsettling than the full price tag - $3... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2009/11/13/congress_shoe_problem 2da2d6aa-7a3c-4d32-9f56-9a735c2ec31a Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT President Obama's point person on health care isn't his point person on health care after all. These days, wherever you'd expect to see Kathleen Sebelius - the respected former Governor of Kansas and newly appointed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidGratzer/2009/08/20/you,_your_doctor,_and_peter_orszag 5ef8022a-5792-4841-a26f-e9a7f6b95495 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:38:55 GMT