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.
As Obama Trolls for More Money to Spend, Republicans Need to Keep the Sequester Caps
As President Obama trolls for ever more spending, it is more important than ever for Republicans to keep the sequester spending caps if they want to control government spending.
Four Reasons Why So Many Question Obama's Love For America
Less than half of the country (47%) believes Obama loves America—a remarkable finding, given that we’re talking about the president of the United States.
Democrats Say A 2016 Electoral College "Blue Wall" Means Republicans Can't Win. Wrong
The so-called blue wall is an marketing effort to hide the more likely chance of a “blue fall.”
Democratic Panic Ensues As Obamacare Flaws Could Create Millions Of Republican Voters
Panic is in full display as Democrats and liberals realize that some of the newly recognized problems of the Affordable Care Act could create millions of new Republican voters in 2016.
Note to White House: Middle East Unemployment Isn't That Bad
Ideology, and in this case religious ideology, creates jihadis and terrorists. But Obama and his State Department continue to think that the root cause of all evil is that government hasn’t done enough.
Fact-checking Obama's Claim That Middle Class Wages Have Stagnated
Middle class wages have been rising, though not by much more than the rate of inflation—and that's a good thing.
Nebraska Supreme Court OKs Keystone Pipeline
Merrill Matthews says Obama is willing to go around Congress to get what he wants and is not afraid of the Nebraska Supreme Court.
Liberal College-Degree Snobs Could Help Scott Walker's Presidential Bid
A president needs good judgment more than a good degree.
Busted: Obamacare Co-Ops Are Underwater And Sinking Fast
Obamacare created 23 “public options” that were supposed to demonstrate just how efficient and affordable government-run health insurance could be. Not full-blown socialized medicine, but a good start. Now, all but one of the 23 state co-ops are underwater.
Should the Supreme Court Limit Obamacare Subsidies Only to State-Created Health Exchanges?
That language is important because only 13 states set up their own exchanges. The other 37 either didn’t try or failed and so relied on the federal government to do it.
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