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Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar

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 SuicideExpanding 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.

October 16, 2013

The Debt Ceiling Won't Affect Social Security Benefits, Unless Democrats are Lying

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been telling the country two different stories about the government’s ability to pay Social Security benefits during the debt-ceiling crisis. So which one is true?

October 16, 2013

Congress Tries To Lower Drug Costs And Raises Health Insurance Premiums Instead

If regulators seem confused about how to implement a health care program as vast and sweeping as ObamaCare, maybe it’s because they know how badly they’ve bungled smaller and simpler health care reform efforts—especially a particular drug discount program.

October 15, 2013

Maine Decides to Open Its Citizens and Itself to Huge New Risks

Maine is allowing the purchase of prescription drugs from foreign Internet pharmacies, putting both patients and the state at risk.

October 10, 2013

Why North America needs an energy free-trade zone

A North American energy free-trade zone would lead to energy self-sufficiency much more quickly, while dramatically increasing economic growth for all three countries.

October 8, 2013

5 reasons the GOP might win the shutdown fight

One week into the shutdown and it appears the predictions of an imminent Republican defeat have been greatly exaggerated—and they might even win.

October 7, 2013

Government Shutdowns Have Never Hurt the Stock Market

While government shutdowns have never cost the stock market more than a few points (and in most cases the market actually went up), the issue of the federal debt ceiling could have a significantly profound impact on the market. 

October 3, 2013

Obama's Ignorance of Health Care Caused the Shutdown

If he understood his own law, Obama would realize that suspending the mandate has nothing to do with uninsured Americans having access to health insurance.

October 1, 2013

ObamaCare: Day One

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

New Yorkers are supposed to be some of ObamaCare’s few winners — but for how long?Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, predicted a “death spiral” in which the rates rise over the next several years, leading healthy people to drop their coverage while “very sick” people “stay in until the very last drop,” forcing rates up even more.

October 1, 2013

How John Boehner Blew His Best Chance to Defund ObamaCare

Speaker Boehner said he would return to “regular order”: if he had, the government-shutdown battle over ObamaCare would have had a much smaller impact.

September 30, 2013

ObamaCare's Bitter Irony: It May Increase Number Of Uninsured

As various ObamaCare assumptions have begun to unravel, we should start to worry that we could have as many if not more uninsured after the law takes effect. If so, the lawmakers who gave Americans this bitter, multi-trillion-dollar health reform pill may find their medicine hard to swallow.

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