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.
What To Do About The IRS: End It Or Mend It?
What can be done about a federal agency that has become despised, politicized and marginalized?
Will Conservatives Make the Same Mistake Obama Has Made?
Reports say some conservatives want to pit low-income workers against immigrants by saying the later take U.S. jobs. A better political strategy is to outline a pro-growth economic agenda that creates jobs for all workers.
What's Behind Those Rising Health Insurance Premiums?
Defenders of the Affordable Care Act are boasting that health insurance premiums are not rising as much as some analysts predicted. They will. There are multiple factors, including politics, that drive health insurance premiums up—and down. The ACA increases both inefficiency and utilization, which will increase total health care spending and therefore health insurance premiums—just the opposite of what President Obama promised.
The Worst U.S. Presidents: How Does Obama Stack Up?
A July Quinnipiac poll asked the public who has been the worst president since 1945. The big winner was President Barack Obama, with 33 percent. It’s easy to see why if we compare him to some of the other men who often make the worst-presidents list.
Obama's Honor-nomics
President Obama’s complete inability to pass liberal legislation that actually works—or now to pass any legislation at all—has driven him to rely on the honor system in the hope that people will do the right thing in several policy arenas.
The Death of Death Panels
The initial debate over Obamacare's "death panels" was a little overblown, but the potential was real. The death panel is currently in limbo, but the economic forces inherent in Obamacare could revive the death panel some time in the future.
What's Up With Health Insurance Premiums -- Besides Politics?
Multiple factors, both health care-related and political, are affecting premium increases. Some of those variables are pushing premiums up and others down.
It's Time to Update Lagging U.S. Energy Infrastructure
The United States recently passed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top energy producer. But our nation’s infrastructure for transporting, storing and delivering energy hasn’t kept up with production.
Looks Like November Could Be A Blowout For GOP Governors
While the media’s November election focus is almost entirely on the U.S. Senate, Democrats will likely take their biggest electoral thumping in the states, especially in the gubernatorial races.
Foreign Tensions Shows Need to Open Energy Exports
For decades, the primary energy producers have been countries that do not share the major democracies' values. And yet the democracies' economies are dependent on those producers. New drilling techniques have made it possible to reduce or eliminate that stranglehold.
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