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.
The Supreme Court's Decision Won't Affect the Real Health Care Revolution
Real health care reform is happening, not in Congress or the Supreme Court, but in the eHealth explosion.
How ObamaCare Increases Income Inequality
Income inequality appears to be growing in the United States. And while President Obama didn’t initiate the trend, his health care legislation will dramatically exacerbate it.
Matthews Available for Coverage of Supreme Court Health Care Law Decision
Dr. Merrill Matthews, IPI health care expert, is available for interview to offer analysis throughout ongoing coverage of the historic Supreme Court decision regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expected next week.
There's a Triple Tax Increase in Your Future
The so-called Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year. That means that all of the current income tax rates will rise to pre-2001 levels overnight. But there's more. The health care law imposes a new 3.8% tax on passive income, including dividends and interest. So the effective dividend tax rate for those at the upper end of the income scale would nearly triple, to 43.4%. Happy New Year!
One Health Insurance CEO Now Opposes the Mandate; Too Late
Had the health insurers stood up for free market principles and defended long-held actuarial principles for underwriting risk, the country might have avoided the ObamaCare nightmare.
Obama Denies Being The 'Regulation President'; He's Wrong
President Obama denies regulations have grown during his tenure, even as he and his administration have pushed for a massive regulatory expansion in the health care, financial and energy industries.
Who Are the Rich and How Do We Know?
While we all may agree that certain people are rich, determining where to draw the line-and what should be included in the calculation-is both difficult and arbitrary.
Some Republicans Embrace ObamaCare Mandates
Some Republicans apparently want to retain some ObamaCare provisions because they're popular, which would force them to be as heavy handed as the Democrats have been.
How to Eliminate Counterfeit Prescription Drugs in the US
Counterfeits are here and will only grow unless Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) devise a better way to monitor prescription drugs from inception to ingestion. Fortunately, the latest version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, referred to as PDUFA V, has passed Congress and includes a “placeholder,” which allows Congress to figure out the best way to track prescription drugs as they move through the supply chain to the patient.
We Can Eliminate Counterfeit Drugs in the U.S. Supply Chain
Counterfeit drugs are here and will only grow unless Congress and the FDA devise a better way to monitor prescription drugs from inception to ingestion.
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