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.
You Know That New 3.8% Medicare Tax? Double It
IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews exposes how Democrats are doubling the tax obligation in the new Medicare tax: The wealthy may be paying the new rate of 3.8% now, but everyone else will also be paying some portion of it later.
Difficult Battle Ahead on Health Care
Health insurance premiums could soar in Georgia as more provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act come into effect this year. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, actuary Mark E. Litow and IPI's Merrill Matthews predict that rates could climb 65 percent to 100 percent in states such as Georgia and Tennessee.
Republicans Can Win a Spending-Cut Fight Because Cuts Are Already Coming
President Obama won’t trade the spending cuts for an increase in the debt-limit ceiling; fine, federal spending cuts are coming anyway.
Analysts Expect Healthcare Act To Raise Most Americans' Insurance Premiums
IPI's Merrill Matthews and actuary Mark Litow, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, titled, "ObamaCare's Health-Insurance Sticker Shock," predict that Americans' healthcare insurance premiums will spike this year due to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Who Will Pay More For Health Insurance Under Obamacare?
As a consequence of some Obamacare requirements — such as the requirement that health insurers accept everyone who applies, never charge more based on serious medical conditions (modified community rating), and/or start paying for many often-uncovered medical conditions — health-insurance premiums have been going up. But not everyone is equally affected by the increase in premiums.
ObamaCare's Health-Insurance Sticker Shock
Thanks to mandates that take effect in 2014, premiums in individual markets will shoot up. Some may double.
IRS To Employers: Pay ObamaCare 'Shared Responsibility' Or Else
As if the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling, higher taxes and a potential recession weren’t enough to scare employers, the Obama administration has just handed them one more headache: an IRS warning that any efforts to avoid the ObamaCare mandate to provide coverage or pay a penalty will not go unpunished.
The New 'Thirty Years War,' And This One's Over Taxes
The first Thirty Years War was over ideological differences; so is the second Thirty Years War, but this time the issue is taxes.
Galveston-Style Entitlement Reform Is On The Money
Switching to a pre-funded system similar to the Alternate Plan, even if it is only for new workers entering the system, means a day will come when we won't be adding even more unfunded liabilities or robbing from those who have paid in their entire working lives.
Fiscal deal makes social programs more vulnerable
The lack of spending cuts in legislation that averted the fiscal cliff will place enormous pressure on entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and even the president’s new heath insurance plan when negotiations begin in coming weeks to reduce the deficit, analysts said Wednesday.
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