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.
Obama's Energy Policy Schizophrenia
Did Dynamic Scoring Kill Last Summer's Budget Deal?
If Democrats think there is no connection between tax rates, government revenue and economic growth, there is little hope for the economy—until we get someone in office who does.
I'm Shocked: ObamaCare Costs More Than Promised
The CBO now claims that Obamacare will cost hundreds of billions of dollars more than originally predicted.
Social Security By Choice
Three Texas counties have a model for reform that proves personal retirement accounts are more than just a conservative pipe dream.
Savings methods absent from Massachusetts Medicaid waiver request
The latest Massachusetts request for a Medicaid waiver renewal from the federal government assumes Safety Net Hospitals will significantly reduce costs for the state’s Medicaid program. Unfortunately, no new methods for such cost reductions are specified in the waiver request, reports Loren Heal of Heartland's Health Care News.
HHS Criticizes 'Unreasonable' Health Insurance Rate Hikes
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced the health insurance premium rate increases proposed for five states by Trustmark Life Insurance Company were “unreasonable," reports Marc Kilmer in The Heartlander.
The Fed's New Effort to Calm Inflation Fears: Print Money and Borrow It
If more cash is the key to getting the economy moving, there is a better way than the Fed's proposal of "sterilized bond buying." Instead, allow companies to repatriate the estimated $1.5 trillion U.S. dollars sitting in foreign bank accounts.
How the Chevy Volt Is Like ObamaCare
How are they alike? Well, both were sold as a key to creating jobs and economic growth. So how is that working out for you?
Labor Unions Get Lion's Share of Final ACA Waivers
The Obama administration released a final list of waivers from the costly mandates of President Obama’s health care law—a list including an overwhelming number of union members, reports Loren Heal of the Heartland Institute.
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