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.
Five Ways Republicans Can Force Obama to Rethink His Executive Order Power Grab
President Obama is waving the red cape in front of the American people, threatening to push the limits of executive action if the GOP doesn’t give him what he wants. Republicans should call his threat and defend the Constitution's legislative process.
Obama Should Leave The Minimum Wage Issue To States And Cities
President Obama wants Congress to give the country a raise, which is bad economics, bad policy and bad federalism. If there is going to be a minimum wage increase, then states and cities ought to set it.
Senate GOP adopts Merrill Matthews' principles for plan to replace Obamacare
Republican senators released their proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare yesterday, and it is right on target. The plan, for which the senators personally credited and thanked the author, incorporates nine of the 10 reform points suggested by Merrill Matthews’ piece for Human Events published Monday
Conservatives Should Know It Takes Big Government to Stop Free Trade
Some conservatives face a dilemma: They don’t like free trade, but trade, including with other countries, is what free people naturally do. And the only way to limit that freedom is with a big, interventionist government, which conservatives have always opposed.
Minimum Wage: Will An Increase Affect Your Growth?
Although economists believe that raising the minimum wage hurts young and low-skilled workers by pricing them out of a job, the move has public support.
Ten Principles of a Market-Oriented Health Care System
The GOP wants a market-driven health care reform plan to replace Obamacare. In Human Events, Merrill Matthews offers a brief summary of the key components.
The "least productive Congress" is a badge of honor
A "do nothing" Congress is probably a constitutional Congress.
Minimum Wage Laws Should Be a State Issue
Minimum wage legislation is bad policy and counterproductive. But if politicians are going to impose a minimum wage, it should be done at the state level.
State of the Union Preview
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address on January 28, and will likely begin by stressing that the economy continues to improve. But at least one economic dark cloud looms: the debt ceiling.
Look at shameful veterans' healthcare for a preview of Obamacare
Seeing politicians stand up and praise our returning wounded warriors and yet never fixing their health care system is lesson in hypocrisy. But it’s also a lesson in what the public can expect under Obamacare.
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