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.
Obama Wants To Buy A Green Legacy With Taxpayer Money
Beware of politicians looking for a legacy—especially when they try to buy it with your tax dollars. President Obama will soon head to Paris for a climate change confab, where he hopes to get a standing ovation for leading the fight against fossil fuels.
The Pilgrims Embraced Bernie Sanders' Economic Plan And Almost Died
When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they tried to infuse socialism onto a capitalist model—or what we might call the Bernie Sanders economic plan. After just a few years of Bernie-nomics, the colonists—those who survived, anyway—recognized their mistake and changed course.
What Bernie Sanders Can Learn from a New York Times Reporter About French Tax Policy
Will one socialist learn from another socialist about marginal tax rates? Probably not.
Obamacare Is About to Send the Health Insurance Industry Into a Death Spiral
The “death spiral” is hitting the health insurance industry, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group.
U.S. Should Counter Russia With Mexico, Canada Oil Alliance
A free-nation oil-exporting alliance could lay the groundwork for a serious challenge to a Russian-led Middle East bloc and give our allies a viable energy alternative to Russia's effort to create an energy stranglehold.
New Poll Finds Hillary Clinton Would Be the Most Disrespected Commander-in-Chief Ever
Eighty-one percent view her unfavorably, with 69 percent having a very unfavorable view.
Some Obamacare Premium Increases Exceed A Minimum Wage Income
No wonder President Obama and the Democrats are pushing so hard to raise the minimum wage. A customer could spend the equivalent of a minimum-wage income just buying Obamacare coverage.
Immigrants Getting More Help Than You Realize From White House
Immigrants coming to the United States are getting a free hand from the Obama Administration. And more of a free hand than you even realize.
The Minimum Wage and the Entitlement Mentality
Minimum wage increases, like welfare benefits, expand the entitlement mentality.
Health Sharing
Dr. Merrill Matthews in a recent article in Forbes describes a plan proposed by Bill Brann that adds a life insurance policy with a critical illness component. It would include an accelerated benefit provision that would allow the insurer to write the beneficiary a check to cover medical expenses.
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