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.
PDUFA Nation: Let's Expand a Good Policy
There are precious few federal agencies that are able to respond to issues and challenges as fast as they should. Fortunately, there’s one that is.
The Seeds of IP Policy: A Growing Agricultural Success Story
A gene trait in the first of the biotech seeds, Roundup Ready, goes off patent in 2014, and many more will soon follow. The industry has been developing a private sector process to govern the transition from patented to generic traits that relies on negotiations and contracts. Such a process would avoid the costly, litigious and adversarial approach Congress imposed on the pharmaceutical industry.
How the 2010 Election Could Affect the 2012 Presidential Race
The 2010 election saw a voter backlash to President Obama and his policies, fundamentally realigning many states.
Consolidation Nation: Under Obama, Big Is the New Normal
By injecting politics and regulation into the financial and health care sectors, the president is killing the innovation and competition that occur in markets that are easy to enter.
Taxes We Should Impose on Politicians
While taxes are meant to raise revenue, they can also be used to punish people or encourage them to change their behavior — and we could sure use some change in Washington.
That Anti-ObamaCare Bumper Sticker Has Now Become a Reality
The president keeps trying to extol the virtues of expanding the government, even as the government keeps proving him wrong.
What We Know and Don't Know About Obama's Loans to Green Companies
Although the administration has handed out about $8.3 billion, we don’t know which companies received how much of that taxpayer money.
Repeal, Repeal, Repeal, Repeal
ObamaCare must be repealed by Congress and replaced with reform legislation that really will increase access to health care, lower costs and improve quality.
Obama's Love-Hate Relationship With Ben Bernanke
ObamaCare Enters the Terrible Twos
ObamaCare’s second birthday reveals a health care law riddled with too much confusion and too little reform.
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