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.
Will Any Medicaid Patient Be Able to See a Doctor in January?
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Don't Subsidize Renewable Energy; Fossil Fuels Are The Way To Go
Past assumptions guiding energy policy may have made sense at one time, but it's time to rethink everything we thought we knew about energy.
Trying to Fix the Racial Gap in Police Departments is Not an Easy Task
The tragic deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have highlighted the racial gap between some police departments and the communities they serve.
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Well, at least one industry is thriving under Obamacare: companies that provide temporary services.
Money Talks: How We Bribe Countries To Complain About Global Warming
All you need to know about the United Nations climate change confab wrapping up its two-week pity party in Lima, Peru, is that lots of countries would split $100 billion—or more—annually if they can only push enough guilt on the developed economies.
When the Only Person Left to See You Is a Nurse
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How Obama Props Up Venezuela's Dictator and His Political Mischief
Venezuela would likely be facing imminent financial collapse if it weren’t for President Obama’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Eric Garner and the Unintended Consequences of High Cigarette Taxes
High tax rates on anything always lead to people gaming the system, sometimes legally and sometimes illegally.
Minimum Wage Increase Is Another Form of Income Redistribution
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Obama's Amnesty Will Create A Fiscal Nightmare For Entitlements
In one executive order Obama may have created his biggest income transfer scheme yet, and imposed the worst financial challenge to our two already-struggling retirement programs. And millions of Americans can expect to see their taxes go up in the future to pay for it.
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