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.
Energy Boom in US Could Assist Peace
The U.S. must move forward with plans that will turn cheap and abundant natural gas into liquefied natural gas for export.
The Obama Administration Has Been a Disaster for Women
Texas Is Top State for International Trade, but It Could Be Even Better
New international trade agreements would lower tariffs and establish substantially more robust commercial channels with countries whose markets offer new opportunities for Texas companies, farmers and workers.
The Red State-Blue State Divide on Getting People Back to Work
Red states are doing much better at reducing the rate of unemployment than blue states, largely because they shun the president's economic policies. Ironically, by doing so they lower the national unemployment rate making the president look better.
If the Federal Government Is Going to Investigate Pyramid Schemes, it Should Start with Social Security
If the federal government really wants to go after pyramid schemes it ought to start with Social Security. That’s the biggest pyramid of them all.
The Next Obamacare Enrollment Crisis Arrives on April Fool's Day
Those who don’t choose a plan before April 1 will be stuck with being uninsured until October.
ObamaCare's High Premiums Mean Less Coverage
The actuarial models indicate the premium increases will result in millions of Americans shifting to less-comprehensive coverage and more people being uninsured than was anticipated.
The Uninsured Rate Drops to Normal Levels and the Media Declare an Obamacare Victory
After a wrenching policy battle, billions of taxpayer dollars and a disastrous Obamacare rollout, a new study shows the uninsured rate has dropped to the high end of its historic level. But the media jumped on it as a clear sign that Obamacare is finally working.
The Case for Permitting Crude Oil Exports
Since the 1970s, U.S. law has banned crude oil exports. But with new drilling techniques dramatically increasing U.S. oil production and the willingness of unfriendly countries to use oil and natural gas supplies as a foreign policy hammer, it's time to repeal that export ban.
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