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.
Halftime in America Shouldn't Mean a Handout in America
Please, No Politics in Vaccine Recommendations
Obama Goes to College, but It's Academics Who Learn Some Lessons
A Homegrown High-Tech Industry That Creates Jobs and Trade Surpluses
Democrats Explain Why They Think Obama is the Energy King
But progress has come in spite of the president, not because of him.
Why Newt Could Win in Florida
Obama: Shunning Growth in Food Stamps, Boasting Growth in Medicaid
Medicare Plans Quash the Liberal Vision for Health Care
Liberals are expressing their disappointment that the mostly for-profit health plans have found a subtle way to attract healthier seniors.
How Obama Sucker Punched Republicans on the Budget
Does the Fed Want Another Housing Crisis?
Here we go again. The Federal Reserve Bank has released a report to top lawmakers on the congressional banking committees encouraging Congress to get more involved in housing policy.
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