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.
Roadblock to Health Care Reform
The 2009 GOP health care proposal was a modest plan that made incremental improvements to the health care system in America at that time, said Merrill Matthews. He thought that, while flawed, the proposal could form the foundation for a new proposal now.
Where's Obama's Outrage at an Industry Where Women Earn 1.4% of Men?
Apparently the president isn’t outraged over this disparity in male-female pay in professional basketball. But what would happen if Congress tried to fix it, as Obama wants to do for the rest of the economy?
Deja 2000: Has the U.S. Been in a Technology Bubble That Just Burst?
The tech bubble of the late 1990s was fueled by an economy that embraced the optimism, so both fell hard and at the same time. The recent tech-stock sell off never got widespread economy buy-in because it's still struggling under President Obama's economic policies. That means the tech sell off is probably more a correction than a bubble that just burst.
One More Politically Damaging Part of Obamacare Gets Ignored
Democrats wrote, passed and praised Obamacare, including the legislation's cuts to seniors' Medicare Advantage program. But now that many of them are facing tough reelections, they asked the Obama administration to ignore the law and unilaterally postpone the cuts. The Obama administration responded by actually providing a spending increase.
What's happening in Ukraine and Venezuela won't happen in the U.S.
There are reasons why Americans won’t give up their guns, and Ukraine and Venezuela are two of them. Widespread gun ownership doesn’t guarantee the population remains free, but a lack on them opens the door for repression.
Global Warming Activist James Hansen Says Nuclear Is the Answer
Matthews says environmental activists who seek substantial carbon dioxide reductions while opposing nuclear power are dreaming. He notes excess regulation deters the construction of new nuclear power plants and makes construction and operation more expensive.
The Impact of Tax Reform on Middle Market Business
In a survey, 63 percent said that corporate tax issues were highly or somewhat challenging. It's easy to see why tax reform is crucial to the middle market's fortunes.
Five Facts About the 'Equal Pay for Equal Work' Campaign
Democrats want to make what's known as the gender pay gap an issue. But economists point out that when relevant factors are considered, there is little of no gap between men' and women's wages.
How Obama Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Free Market Health Insurance Principles
After years of pontificating about what was wrong with health insurance, Obamacare could eventually incorporate the very elements Obama was trying to fight.
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