Elisabeth Rosenthal (born April 29, 1956)[1] is an American physician and former New York Times reporter who focused on health and environment matters.
She is the author of a 2017 book, An American Sickness, which argues that severely distorted financial incentives are at the root of the US healthcare problems.
[1] In 1994 Rosenthal began working for The New York Times as a science reporter, before covering the health and hospitals beat.
In 2012 she began covering the Affordable Care Act, which started her new beat as a healthcare reporter.
[2] The alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was found to have had in his possession at the time of being captured by law enforcement, a document in which the shooter cited two people, Michael Moore, and Elisabeth Rosenthal, as those who had "illuminated the corruption and greed" of the healthcare/health insurance industry.