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.
Rand Paul Proposes the Boldest Tax Reform Plan Yet
Paul's plan would “blow up” (his words) the incomprehensible U.S. tax code and start from scratch with a simple, low and fair tax.
Jeb Is The Best of the Bushes, But That's Not Saying Much
He’s still the best of the Bushes. But is that enough to attract conservative primary voters who are demanding less of the same ole thing?
Have Toll Roads Become 'Troll Roads'?
At one time toll roads were thought to be a free market solution to traffic congestion; that assumption is being reconsidered by some.
Latest Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare Looms
Obamacare opponents see a potential silver lining in a Supreme Court decision that would end tax credits for many of those using the federal marketplace. To fill the coverage gap, insurance companies might look to sell bare-bones "limited-benefit" plans that don't meet Obamacare's minimum coverage requirement but are less expensive, suggested Merrill Matthews.
Does Obama Want To Kill Obamacare?
As strange as it may sound, President Obama’s recent statements give the impression that he’s willing to let his health care law go on life support—if he can claim Republicans pulled the plug.
Veteran Dallas Reporter Makes Rookie Mistake on Taxation of U.S. Firms' Overseas Profits
Will Deener, Dallas Morning News columnist, recently moaned about how big U.S. companies engaged in real businesses are avoiding paying billions in taxes because "the nation’s largest companies stockpile billions of dollars in profits overseas." In the process, he assumed that companies would pay the highest federal income tax rate of 35 percent on all overseas profits repatratriated. That's simply wrong, and it's astonishing that someone with his experience doesn't know any better.
We've Found The Source Of Human-Caused Global Warming: Data Manipulation
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) manipulated the raw data from global temperatures.
A Dallas Morning News Columnist Gets It Wrong on Overseas Profits
The repatriation issue opens the door for a serious discussion about the pressing need for tax reform in a global economy.
HISD Summer Free Meal Program Is Underway
You may be surprised abuot who is eligible for the HISD free school meal program in which children up to the age of 18 can eat two meals a day for free, with no registration required. IPI's Merrill Matthews says costs might go down if enrollment was required.
Old and Broke In America
If you are an older American headed toward retirement, there’s a good chance you will be poor. We can fix the problem of old and broke in America, if it weren’t for entrenched, status quo forces.
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