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 GOP Candidate's Primer of Climate Change Answers
Climate change is one of the media’s biggest issues, and they are likely to make it very hot for Republican candidates who don’t know the facts or give them politically incorrect answers.
How Republican Candidates Can Survive the Left's Obsession With Climate Change
Climate change is one of the media’s pet issues, and they'll make it very hot for GOP candidates who don’t know the facts or give them politically incorrect answers.
Are Hillary And Her Friends Headed For The White House Or The Big House?
The FBI is looking into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and highlights 18 US Code 793 of the Espionage Act that the former secretary of state might have violated - a felony. With the FBI on the case, we may finally get some answers—and some indictments.
A New Tax-Free Account for the Disabled, but Why Stop There?
ABLE-type accounts send the right message--that individuals can and should be responsible for their own needs.
Walker, Rubio Present Plans to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
IPI's Merrill Matthews says Walker’s plan is a little more detailed than Rubio’s and focuses on people without employer-based plans. “Rubio wants to give everyone a tax credit, which is the right thing to do, but it’s very difficult to explain to the public. It also talks about expanding Medicare, but how do you expand Medicare and pay for it?”
The Problem With G.O.P. Plans to Sell Health Insurance Across State Lines
If uniform rules, alone, were enough to ensure a broad array of competitors, you might expect to see many insurers participating. But that does not seem to be the case. “Just because a good affordable policy is available in another state doesn’t mean that I would be able to get the network of physicians and the good prices that are available in that other state," said IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews.
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A number of state legislatures are investigating the “state application and convention process” to amend the Constitution. Here’s what conservatives need to know about that effort.
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Four Takeaways From the Stock Market Slide
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Here Come the Obamacare Price Control Police
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