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.
McDonnell appears on VP shortlist
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President Obama's War on the Middle Class
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States Should Break Their Addiction To Medicaid
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No One Would Miss ObamaCare, but the Window for Repeal Is Two Years
Matthews writes in the Wall Street Journal that ObamaCare's alleged benefits are overrated, and by 2014 the bureaucratic mess may be impossible to untangle.
Environmentalists have unrealistic vision to 'repeal, replace' fossil fuels
The day may come when we can transition to clean energy, but not for decades. Until there is a real “replace” vision, environmentalists should quit trying to “repeal” fossil fuels.
Perry vs. Medicaid plan
In reaction to Gov. Rick Perry's declaration Monday that
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