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.
Gaming ObamaCare's Health Insurance Mandate For Fun And Profit
President Obama says the mandate to have health coverage is essential to making ObamaCare work; but it will be very easy for most of the uninsured to game the penalty and so never be “punished” for not having coverage.
New Ground: ALEC Conference Moves Forward on CDA, Considers Health IT, Data Privacy
ALEC wants to provide ideas of how legislators can act next, said task force private-sector Chairman Bartlett Cleland, IPI policy counsel. "It is critically important for the future of healthcare that state legislators start understanding what they can do and start to act, so we can drive down healthcare costs and get healthcare to more people."
Shocker: New Survey Finds Nearly Every Federal Employee Rejects ObamaCare
Apparently when President Obama promised, “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period,” he was only referring to federal employees and himself. This kind of hypocrisy goes a long way toward explaining why the American people have become so cynical about politics.
Obama Needs to Know Why Small Businesses Will Hire and Invest Next Year
A survey of small businesses say they plan to hire and invest next year, but it’s not because of something President Obama did, but what he didn’t do.
Believe It! Democrats Once Demanded Tax and Spending Cuts
After President John F. Kennedy failed to cut income tax rates, President Lyndon Johnson and Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd successfully pushed through the 1964 cuts in personal and corporate income tax rates.
Oklahoma Lawsuit Could Effectively Defund ObamaCare
Oklahoma is still fighting ObamaCare, and using a very solid argument for doing so. If the state is successful, it will largely defund ObamaCare in the states that did not set up their own exchange.
Obama Likes Temporary Infrastructure Jobs, Except When He Doesn't
President Obama wants to spend federal money on more infrastructure projects that he says creates good jobs; so why not approve the Keystone XL pipeline which will create infrastructure jobs without spending taxpayer money?
Another ObamaCare Assumption Bites the Dust
President Obama promised that ObamaCare would reduce emergency room visits and save money; a new study explains why yet another ObamaCare assumption is dead wrong.
Experts: Obamacare Exchanges Not Decreasing Insurance Rates
Healthcare experts questioned President Barack Obama’s claim Thursday that Obamacare-mandated health insurance exchanges will actually drive down insurance costs, contending that he is making bad comparisons and that costs are increasing.
Make apps part of health insurance
Health care could become cheaper and more efficient with the full integration of technology.
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