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.
Jobless rate masks troubles
Merrill Matthews tells reporter Michael Kanell a larger workforce itself adds to the economy's potential.
House Passes Bill to Expedite Energy Production on Federal Lands
Merrill Matthews said Obama claims credit for increasing oil and natural gas production while working to thwart it. “His energy ‘successes’ [amount to] putting a happy face on a dysfunctional and damaging effort,” he said.
Liberal governors bankrupt their states just like Obama bankrupts the country
Fiscal restraint and energy production are the best way to fiscal health.
A Closer Look at Unemployment Numbers for Minorities and Youth
If employers won’t hire teenagers at $7.25 an hour, the current minimum wage, will they be more or less willing to hire them at $10.00?
Here's a real health insurance alternative to Obamacare
Let's shift from the current system where countless people are involved in managing care and controlling costs—except the doctor and patient—to one in which patients are financially empowered to make their own decisions.
Government Programs Have Become One Big Scammer Fraud Fest
Government program defrauders should have a positive outlook for 2014 as a banner year for scamming taxpayers.
Republicans Get It Mainly Right on Health Care Reform
The Republican Study Committee’s recent proposal as an alternative to the Obamacare rollout is on the right track, and changes economic incentives for the U.S. health care system.
Republicans Get Painful News on Brand Problem
“A growing number of conservatives, and especially tea partyers and libertarian-leaning Americans, have decided that their commitment is more to ideology than political party,” said Merrill Matthews of IPI. “And while they will likely vote Republican in most elections, they have become dissatisfied with the Republican label because they don’t think it stands for — or too often strays from — principled conservatism.”
Obama Wants to Extend the Longest Extension of Unemployment Benefits in History
Democrats are pushing Republicans to pass yet another extension of the unemployment benefits, but the long-term unemployed are a result of Obama’s bad economic policies and extending benefits only provides him with political cover from those bad policies.
Statistical Odds of a GOP President in 2016
The GOP has an 83 percent chance or better of winning the presidency in 2016.
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