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.
Slow Relief for Gas Pains
The president has a solution to the rising gas prices....it just may take a while.
Obama's Blocking Energy Production
Romney's Income Tax Rate Should Be Zero
A Wasteful Spender Demands More Tax Money to Waste
Budget? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Budget
The Democrats in the Senate have not passed a budget in more than 1,000 days--ceeding much of the budgetary authority to the president.
Contraceptive Coverage: One More Unconstitutional Mandate
The Broken-Promise Budget Proposal
How many broken budget promises does President Obama’s new budget represent? A bunch.
Contraception Coverage Compromise Could Raise Costs
In this article published by FoxBusiness Dr. Merrill Matthews explains how administrative fees are likely to rise under the Obama administration’s compromise plan: since religious employers will not be held responsible for their employees’ contraception coverage the burden is shifted to the insurers.
The Government is Dragging Its Feet on New Vaccines
ObamaCare Hidden Price Controls Will Hammer Insurers
The federal government is cranking up its effort to control health care costs by imposing backdoor price controls on health insurers.
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