Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and opinion contributor at The Hill. He also serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, co-author of On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlements Cliff, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).
He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
A Republican President's Executive Order Could Undermine Obamacare
An executive order isn’t the best way to topple Obamacare, but Obama has used that tactic so many times that it will be very hard for future presidents to reject it when an executive order could be used effectively.
When 'Full Employment' No Longer Is Full Employment
The U.S. is approaching what economists call "full employment," in which everyone who wants a job can find one. So why are so many people unemployed and desperate for work?
Big Policy Reforms Republican Candidates Should Embrace in 2016
With the possible exception of tax reform, very few conservatives will accuse the GOP presidential candidates of bold policy proposals. So maybe the candidates could use some suggestions.
Hillary Wants to Cure Alzheimer's While Attacking Companies That Could Actually Cure It
If Clinton is serious about finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, she will need those same drug companies she habitually denigrates.
'Twas the Week Before Christmas:
As Ryan the new Chief, and Nancy the shill,
Agreed they would stick us with a huge spending bill.
ObamaCare Becomes Unaffordable As It Shifts Costs To Patients
If you think you've never spent so much for health insurance since ObamaCare made health care "affordable," you're right.
Five Numbers That Should Terrify Democrats
These five numbers—60, 57, 68, 57 and 46—could doom any Democratic presidential candidate, regardless of who the Republicans nominate.
If Donald Trump Was President, Here’s What Would Happen to the U.S. Economy
There's no denying Trump has done a good job of making himself rich -- he's worth somewhere between $4.5 billion and $10 billion, depending who you ask . Can he make the rest of America rich, too?
Can Social Security and Medicare Be Counted as Part of Seniors' Wealth?
Future Social Security and Medicare benefits can't be counted as part of seniors' wealth because they don't own those accounts. But if seniors did own them, they wouldn't just be "counted" as wealthy, they would be wealthy.
Hillary Clinton Thinks Snubbing the Constitution Is Patriotic
If you thought the end of the Obama presidency would see a return to the constitutional framework under which Congress writes the laws and the president signs and enforces them, think again. Hillary Clinton now says that if she’s elected president and Congress doesn’t bow to her whims, it would be her patriotic duty to bypass the legislative branch.
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