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.
Keystone Pipeline Awaits President's Decision
Merrill Matthews said the president opposes Keystone because he is beholden to environmentalists.
Obama Doesn't Care About the Keystone Pipeline Facts, Just the Politics
The House and Senate have now passed bipartisan legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline. Seems like the only one who doesn’t support it is President Obama. And yet opposition to the pipeline is inexplicable if you know the facts behind the issue.
Calling Sen. Coburn: Wish He Could Still Expose Obama's Latest NIH Funding Ploy
President Obama wants to throw more money at the National Institutes of Health, as part of the liberal vision that government is better and cheaper at research. But taxpayers shouldn't give more money to an agency that wastes billions of dollars on questionable, and even ludicrous, research.
The White House Lied About Those Getting Amnesty Not Receiving Welfare Benefits
We are going to have to forget that old maxim that “crime doesn’t pay,” because in Obama’s redistribution economy crime (i.e., entering the country illegally) pays handsomely.
If Obama Wants Reagan's Capital Gains Tax Rate, He Should Take Reagan's Income Tax Rates
The White House has sent conservatives what it apparently thinks is a very clever message: You say the economy boomed under President Ronald Reagan’s tax reforms. Well, Reagan’s top capital gains tax rate was 28 percent, so let’s go back to that.
The Most Wanted List You Never Heard Of: Millions of Tax Dollars Vaporized
The Office of Inspector General at the US Dept. of Health and Human Services has a Most Wanted list. IPI's Merrill Matthews wrote about a 2010 GAO report identifying "$48 billion in what it termed as ‘improper payments.’”
Are You (And High Schoolers) Smarter Than Immigrants Taking A Citizenship Test?
Arizona has become the first state in the country to require high school students to pass the basic civics test given to immigrants applying to become U.S. citizens. Students will have to correctly answer 60 of the test’s 100 questions. Can they do it? Can you?
Markets Don't Fail, Government Policies Do
Lot's of liberals, the media and even some economists like to talk about "market failure" as a justification for their expansive government policies. But markets don't fail. What does fail are government policies that try to "fix" markets.
New Congress Has an Energy Mandate
While the economy may have been voters' primary concern, energy issues played a key role, especially in the states that gave Republicans control of the Senate.
Rand Paul's Renewed Effort to Stop the Government From Stealing You Blind
Civil asset forfeiture has become one of law enforcement’s most egregious and unconstitutional practices.
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