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.
Romney Could Have Beaten Obama Had ObamaCare Been Rolled Out Last Year
Had Obamacare kicked in last year, there’s a good chance that dissatisfied voters would have given the president and some Democrats the boot. Now that the public knows the truth, Democrats are getting increasingly, and justifiably, nervous about 2014.
National Academies of Science Study: Fracking Captures 99 Percent of Methane
Merrill Matthews says new fracking technologies allow energy producers to provide more affordable electricity while simultaneously reducing pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
How Keystone XL is already creating jobs and bringing us more energy
Tthe Keystone pipeline system is already pumping nearly 600,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil sands to Illinois refineries—and much to enviromentalists' dismay, doomsday still hasn’t come.
The Administration That Coordinated The Obamacare Website Will Soon Coordinate Your Health Care, Too
If you thought the Obamacare website rollout was a disaster, wait until these same people start coordinating your health care. And when that implodes as badly as the website, we’ll get to see a replay of all those responsible running for cover and claiming it was everybody else’s fault.
Obama Vindictiveness Raises Its Ugly Head--Yet Again
Craig Zucker did every thing he was supposed to ensure the public safety of his product Buckyballs—except kowtow to the Obama administration. And now Team Obama wants to teach him a lesson.
Your share of the national debt is now $1.1 million
Each US taxpayer now has a federal-debt liability of $1.1 million, and rising.
John Boehner's critics want to show him the door
House Speaker John Boehner's public image has been badly tarnished. It's mostly been by his own doing.
The GOP must fight to kill the individual mandate
If Republicans can’t defund Obamacare and can’t eliminate the mandate, they can try to do the next best thing: eliminate the penalties. Or force Democrats to explain why they want to fine the American people.
AARP Publishes a Study to Show Only What It Wants to Show
AARP’s new study purports to show the economic benefits of Social Security, but completely ignores the downside of the taxes the program imposes on the economy—and people.
Healthcare Reform for Your Facebook Friends
Merrill Matthews sits down with The Freeman to explain what Obamacare is, isn't, might fix, and might make worse.
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