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.
Medicare And Medicaid Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Billions
Criminals scam Medicare and Medicaid — and taxpayers — out of billions of dollars a year; the federal government is addressing the problem, but too slow and too late.
Paying For ObamaCare Will Require Huge Medicare Cuts
Republicans Shouldn't Make the Same Health Insurance Mistakes Democrats Made
Several Republicans reportedly want to retain certain provisions in ObamaCare, not because those provisions are good policy, but because they’re popular.
In Praise Of Eduardo Saverin's Tax Avoidance
Tax competition between governments is a good thing, and those who flee high-tax countries, like Eduardo Sevarin, should be praised for keeping the pressure up on politicians to keep taxes low.
ObamaCare Forces Medicare Trustees to Make False Budget Assumptions
For the third time, the chief actuary has released an alternative (read: realistic) scenario for Medicare’s future budget. Although unprecedented, somebody has to tell the truth.
Why Women, Hispanics And Youth Won't Save Obama
The economy and lack of job growth hits Obama’s core constituencies even harder than the general population.
A New Way to Buy Votes
It’s bad enough that politicians think they can use taxpayer dollars to buy themselves votes. How much worse will it be if those politicians come to conclude they can force private sector companies to buy votes for them?
Comparing Obama's Policies with French Socialist Hollande
Obama economic policies are almost identical to those of the French socialist François Hollande. Those policies haven’t worked in Greece or in any other place where they’ve been tried — like the U.S.
The Seeds of a Successful Trade Policy
It's time to focus on one of the U.S.'s trade success stories: agriculture, and specifically genetically modified (GM) seeds.
Explaining the Temporary Decline in Health Care Spending
Two key factors have played a role in removing some of the cost insulation in recent years: the economic downturn and new types of health insurance coverage. And the president would like nothing better to bring an end to both.
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