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.
White House hoping for positive ObamaCare headlines in 2014
IPI's Merrill Matthews appears on Fox News Channel's Special Report discussing ObamaCare's unprecedented expansion of Medicaid in 2014 and the new chaos that is the U.S. health care system.
Is Hillary inevitable in 2016? No way
The Clintons are trying to create the impression that Hillary has the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination sewn up. A more realistic analysis would recognize that she has a lot of baggage in a general election that will stress image, competency and honesty. Hillary is challenged on all three.
Health Insurers Are Being Battered By Obamacare, And They Deserve It
There's turmoil among health insurers as they try to provide Obamacare-qualified coverage that has become at best a moving target. But they deserve every bit of the confusion, uncertainty and potential financial losses they get.
The doctor won't see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid
As thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans.
Mandate Revolt: Health Insurers Offering Coverage for Those Who Refuse Obamacare
After generally supporting Obamacare’s mandate to have government-qualified coverage, some insurers see a market for plans that don’t qualify for the mandate.
Obama's Quest To Increase Income Inequality - Starting With The Minimum Wage And Obamacare
Obama's policies have been a disaster for low-income and low-skilled workers, which is why their unemployment rate is so high. And now, in the name of reducing income inequality, he would make millions of Americans even poorer.
Flaws in Obamacare helping impede Medicaid efforts
Doctors participating in Oklahoma's Medicaid plan — and all other states' Medicaid plans — face another problem, as pointed out by Dr. Merrill Matthews: Doctors who accept Medicaid patients could face a 24 percent cut in reimbursements beginning Jan. 1 — all thanks to Obamacare.
In Trying to Smear ALEC, Wash Post Liberal Gets It Wrong
If the People's Republic of China can attend an ALEC task force meeting and make a presentation about economic reform, how secretive can it be?
Bad Santa: How Greenpeace Conflates Two Myths into One Big Lie
Greenpeace releases a video of Santa lying to all the boys and girls about global warming.
Ethanol For Our Own Good?
There are a number of similarities between Obamacare and an energy mandate known as the "renewable fuel standard."
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