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.
Why Health Care Spending Will Explode Under ObamaCare
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Cyprus Is Just Proposing a More Efficient Way to Steal Taxpayer Money
Cyprus proposes a quick and efficient way to do what President Obama has already done.
Guest worker program key to immigration reform
Developing a viable guest worker program should be the first item on the immigration reform agenda, not the last.
Government's Push for Electronic Health Records Hinders Adoption
The administration’s effort to push electronic health records may have postponed their adoption for years.
A Federal Agency Promotes Discrimination By Trying To Fight It
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Some in GOP eye Obama ideas with envy
While some conservatives admire Obama's $100 billion initiative to map the human brain, IPI's Merrill Matthews warns: "We also have to remember that doing so requires the government to allocate the research funds. And as we saw with Solyndra and several other now-defunct companies, this administration hasn’t always made good choices.”
About Those Tax Breaks for Big Oil...
A bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Van Hollen has inadvertently called attention to the fact that those "special tax breaks" just for the oil and gas industry don't exist. Mr. Van Hollen proposes to create some very special punishments instead. Regardless of the bill's fortunes on Capitol Hill, it has already performed a public service by illuminating the fallacy behind assaults on the industry.
President Obama's Questionable Effort to Educate the American Public
President Obama says he wants to teach Americans how to make sound financial decisions—which he refuses to make for the country.
Health Savings Accounts Will Survive ObamaCare -- At Least For Now
It appears that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) will slip under the Affordable Care Act’s threshold for qualified coverage—although just barely. And given the fact that HSAs, and similar high deductible health insurance options, are about the only type of health coverage bending down the health care cost curve, they may even thrive.
Will the IRS Make a Training Video About ObamaCare?
The same IRS that just wasted taxpayer money making insulting “training videos” is getting more power over your lives—thanks to ObamaCare.
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