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.
Where Gun Rights and Voting Rights Converge
If the Left insists it’s both reasonable and constitutional to require a photo ID to buy a gun, then it should be reasonable and constitutional to require one for voting.
Mississippi Rejects Medicaid Expansion and Embraces Innovation Instead
Obamacare tries to impose a failed industrial-era Medicaid program on states; Mississippi is choosing 21st century technology and innovation instead.
We Need Pro-Growth Tax Reform
The country needs pro-growth tax reform, but eliminating a widely used inventory valuation method may actually cost government revenue and stifle the economic growth this country so desperately needs.
Four Reasons Why Toyota Will Be Looking at California In Its Rearview Mirror
Toyota’s abandoning high-tax California for a business-friendly, low-tax state—as more and more companies and individuals in blue states are doing—makes good economic and political sense.
Democrats Say Ed Gillespie's Book Promoted Individual Mandates
Merrill Matthews writes in Forbes that a passage in Gillespie’s book amounts to an "anti-mandate approach," and was endorsing an unsuccessful proposal President George W. Bush made one year later offering tax breaks to insured households.
The FDA Needs To Move Faster On Safe Drug Approval
There is a growing recognition that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is more of a threat to human safety than a protector of it.
Good News for Earth Day
There is good news this Earth Day, but somehow we expect that many people will grumble at the good news rather than celebrate.
If The Facts Don't Fit, Change The Facts
The politicization of what is supposed to be reliable, nonpartisan, government-sponsored economic research is one of the saddest legacies of the Obama administration.
Justice Scalia Gets It Wrong: Millennials Should Have Already Revolted
Given how much younger workers have to pay in taxes and how little they can expect to get back, the real question is why they didn’t revolt years ago.
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