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.
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Obama Builds a Berlin Wall--for American Companies
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Senator Rand Paul has outlined at least five important principles that should guide U.S. foreign policy decisions.
Democrats' Failed Election Strategies Just Keep Coming
Consider some of the themes Democrats bragged would hammer Republicans and help Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate.
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Businesses are cutting jobs due to ObamaCare, according to surveys by several regional Federal Reserve Banks.
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Low-wage jobs in a free market are not a bad thing, they are necessary to allowing unskilled workers to get a job.
The Time May Be Right to Salvage States Rights
“This is the biggest push back that I’ve seen in my lifetime," said Merrill Matthews of IPI. "There’s this growing sense that there are areas that are the purview of states, and the states ought to be allowed to do that.”
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Skilled immigrants are good for the economy and for your pocketbook.
Since The Ebola Outbreak, Who's Bad-Mouthin' Drug Companies Now?
Since the tragic outbreak of the Ebola virus, critics of drug companies have changed their tune.
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