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.
There Is No Conservative Case for ObamaCare
J.D. Kleinke of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute claims in the New York Times that there is a conservative case for ObamaCare. If there is, Kleinke’s not making it. He is wrong on the history, problems and policy of health care reform, both now and during the ClintonCare debate.
Obama Bends the EPA Rules When It Helps Him
The White House recently pulled out all the stops (including setting aside some EPA regulations) to keep Sunoco's
Will Californians Embrace Science or Succumb to Fear Mongering Over Genetically Modified Foods?
When Californians will vote on Proposition 37, will they embrace science of the warnings of competitors?
Could Fed Spending Policies Cause Inflation? They Already Have
Inflation isn't a threat in the future, it's here now—thanks to the Fed—if you understand what inflation really is.
The Coming 'Obama Recession' Of 2013
If President Obama is reelected and gets his way, the country will enter the "Obama recession" of 2013, just like FDR in 1937.
Mitt Romney Is Right About the 'Victims' of Government
Mitt Romney just told the truth when he identified the 47 percent who embrace the entitlement state, which in today’s politics is the only thing a candidate isn’t supposed to do.
France Provides a Preview of a Re-Elected Obama Tax Policies
France is leading the way with higher taxes on high-income earners, prompting some of them to move elsewhere. Could that happen in the U.S. because of Obama's tax increases?
Medicare Spending Can Be Cut, Just Not Obama's Way
Both Democrats and Republicans are trying to use the mantra of "they're cutting Medicare" as a way to hammer the opposing party and drum up senior support. But here's the dirty little secret: Medicare spending could be cut, a lot, without doing any harm to seniors' health.
We Know the Feds Like Low Interest Rates, but Forever?
The days of Federal Reserve Bank independence from the political sphere may be drawing to a close.
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