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.
Is the Government Reducing Medicare Fraud? Who Knows?
ObamaCare gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $77 million to fight Medicare fraud, but CMS has failed to let Congress know how well it’s doing in that fight.
Democrats Stop Blaming Bush and Start Blaming Grover Norquist
In their endless quest to blame someone other than their own policies for the country’s economic ills, liberals are focusing less on former President George W. Bush and more on Grover Norquist, founder and president Americans for Tax Reform and creator of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.”
Where Are the Republican Spending Cut Proposals?
Virtually lost in the debate is that the more the government cuts spending, the less new revenue needs to be raised.
The little-discussed tax increase that hits many of us
President Barack Obama is determined to make the wealthy “pay a little more” in taxes. But if he gets his way one very important tax rate-- dividends-- will triple overnight.
Investing in Energy Companies is Not Like Apartheid
One global-warming alarmist's effort to equate apartheid with investing in traditional energy companies is both bad economics and morally offensive. Apartheid was a government-backed effort to keep certain people economically depressed; the energy industry is a private sector endeavor that spurs economic growth and the standard of living-for everyone.
Welfare, in its many forms, mushrooms
The Orange County Register editorial board writes that vast welfare expansion adds to the looming fiscal catastrophe posed by general entitlement spending. According to IPI's Merrill Matthews and Mark E. Litow, chairman of the Social Insurance Public Finance Section of the Society of Actuaries, "the coming entitlements cliff" is substantially greater than the end-of-the-year fiscal cliff, a combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and automatic spending cuts.
Election Over, Liberals Call for Entitlement Reform
Now that the election is over and President Obama can no longer be held accountable by the voters, liberals are claiming the country needs entitlement reform.
Will There Be a Fix for the 'Doc Fix'?
One important element of the "fiscal cliff" is what's known as the "Doc Fix," because without a fix doctors will stop seeing Medicare patients.
Can Technology Companies Be a Model for Working Out Important Differences?
If the country needs a model for how different sides can work out their differences, it might look to a recent agreement forged in the biotech seed industry.
The Era of Big Government is Back
Election returns show that big government is back, and with so many people depending on it, it may be here to stay.
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