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.
What Happens When You Can't Believe A Thing The President Says?
When the president speaks he may be telling the truth, he may not be, or he may be parsing his words to mislead. It has been his pattern since, well, forever, as John Heilemann and Mark Halperin demonstrate in their excellent book on the 2008 presidential election, Game Change.
Mysteries of the Keystone XL pipeline
The biggest mystery about the Keystone XL pipeline is why its final stage hasn't already been approved by the Obama administration.
Syria Sets the Stage for a Foreign Policy Debate Based on Conservative Principles
We know what neo-conservatives believe about foreign policy, and who knows what Obama believes. Fortunately, conservatives can use the Syria crisis to define and promote conservative principles.
The truth about wages: Obama's economy
The left and “progressives” love to blame wage stagnation on greedy businesses wanting to gobble a larger share of the pie. But it's actually a product of businesses' uncertainty about taxes, regulations and employee-benefit costs — which the Obama administration has exacerbated.
Does the President Want ObamaCare Death Panels for Higher Education?
President Obama has identified yet another sector of the economy in dire need of government help: higher education. And it seems he wants to use ObamaCare as the model for improving education quality and lowering cost. The one teensy-weensy problem is that ObamaCare will do neither.
Ending Republican Blunders Over ObamaCare
Leading scholars on the right, such as John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis, Peter Ferrara of the Heartland Institute and Merrill Mathews of the Institute for Policy Innovation, have been working for years to try to get the Republicans thinking and acting correctly about health care reform.
The Recent Decline in Wages Is a Result of Obama's Economic Policies
Real average wages have declined over the past four years and the reason is simple: Companies facing Obama’s regulatory and tax onslaught are reluctant to invest and hire.
ObamaCare Targeted by Pruitt
Oklahoma stands as the last, best hope for defunding President Obama's health care legislation. State Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed suit against the federal government alleging that the Obama administration plans to violate the clear wording of Obamacare.
President Bush's Medical Procedure Demonstrates the Threat of ObamaCare
Doctors often disagree on the right course of treatment for a given patient, so how will some panel in Washington know what’s best?
Green Energy's Unintended Consequences
The green energy movement is driven by good intentions ... mostly. But it is also riddled with unintended, even ridiculous, consequences that often outweigh the good the movement hopes to achieve.
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