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.
Wind Production Tax Credit Imposes High Costs
U.S. taxpayers have been subsidizing wind energy for decades. The primary focus of that subsidy has been the Production Tax Credit, which ended in 2013. But powerful forces want to reinstate the PTC, even though wind energy imposes huge costs on ratepayers and taxpayers at a time when fossil-fuel generated electricity is getting cheaper and cleaner.
Those Tax-Free, Online Cyber Monday Purchases May Be Your Last
The Internet has thrived as a place of freedom, where the long hand of government regulation and taxes have been kept to a minimum. The Marketplace Fairness Act seeks to end that era—and with it your ability to get most of your Cyber Monday purchases tax free.
Should new GOP Congress rescind EPA's 54.5 mpg mandate for 2025 models?
Like so many of the administration’s reforms, this one is imposed by executive fiat rather than approved by Congress—and the incoming Republican Congress should try to roll it back.
These Two States Cut Medicaid ... And Saved Money
Illinois and Pennsylvania were the two case studies the IPI used to illustrate Medicaid reform.
Great News! My Wife's Health Insurance Premiums More Than Doubled
It was completely predictable. In fact, health actuary Mark Litow and I predicted it in the Wall Street Journal last year. But now it’s hitting the pocketbook.
Can We Believe Officials Claiming They Made a Mistake Inflating Obamacare Coverage
The administration has repeatedly misled, fudged, concealed and even lied to the public about Obamacare.
States Can Lead the Legal Fight Against Obama's Amnesty
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has recommended two good options for the Senate.
Critics: Fracking ban unconstitutional
A pair of Burns Town Board members opposed to a potential fracking ban have sent The Evening Tribune Merrill Matthews' article from the Aug. 1, 2014 edition of The Wall Street Journal saying, “The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says, in part, that private property cannot be taken for public use ‘without just compensation.' Government regulations that substantially reduce the value of an owner’s property may also constitute a taking.
What Obama Won't Tell You About U.S. Carbon Emissions
President Obama likes to trash the U.S. as a top polluter, but by some measurements the U.S., as the world's economic engine, does very well.
Obama's Executive Amnesty Will Hurt Democrats
And the real tragedy behind Obama’s plan is that it will likely undermine comprehensive immigration reform, which the country desperately needs.
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