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.
It's Time for the Public to Scrutinize the IRS Rather Than the Other Way Around
President Obama’s Organizing for Action is an overtly political group with lots of money and the same tax status sought by conservative groups that raised so much concern at the IRS.
Is There Another Elected Obama In Our Future?
Is first lady Michelle Obama being groomed for political office?
The New York Times Defends Social Security But Gets Its 'Facts' Wrong
The New York Times thinks Social Security doesn’t affect the federal deficit, but it clearly does.
Democrats Complain That Having a Job Costs Taxpayer Dollars
A new study from House Democrats claims that Wal-Mart's wages cost the government money. But it's government welfare programs that cost the government money, while Wal-Mart is helping to reduce the need for welfare.
Medical Miracles Aren't Cheap
Not all medical miracles are treated equally, a fact that may become apparent as cancer specialists meet in Chicago this week for the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology. A likely topic will be the price of new cancer-fighting drugs.
Conversation Starters
The U.S. must move forward with plans that will turn cheap and abundant natural gas into liquefied natural gas for export. Producing and exporting U.S. energy might be the closest thing we've seen to a real "peace movement."
Texas Counties Set Example for Retirement
Three Texas counties aren't facing a retirement time bomb because 30 years ago they transitioned to a defined-contribution retirement plan for county workers that mirrored the payroll taxes and benefits of Social Security but avoided the long-term unfunded liabilities. Oh, and those workers have never lost a dime.
Big-Government Advocates Shocked That Business Tries to Profit from Their Decisions
Big-government advocates make decisions that can affect the market and billions of dollars in an instant, but are shocked that people try to profit from those decisions.
It's time we learn what green energy costs states and cities
In all the focus on federal green energy spending, what's been overlooked is that states and cities are also neck-deep in renewable energy subsidies.
Energy policy is national security issue: Column
Energy self-sufficiency, which could be attainable in a decade or so, would mean that U.S. foreign policy couldn't be held hostage to energy policy.
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