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.
Democrats' Hope to Put 1 Million People Out of Work
Democrats' Medicare for All legislation could put a million private sector employees out of a job, which has been a decades-old goal.
Price Controls on Drugs Limit Access More Than Price
If lawmakers want to cut drug spending without leaving patients in the lurch, they’d be wise to foster more competition in the drug marketplace. Price controls
Ending Steel Tariffs Would Reduce the Cost of Energy
President Donald Trump’s trade war is a little over a year old, so it’s a good time to review its impact -- especially since he is rattling the steel-tariffs sword once again.
Texas AG Files New Brief in Planned Parenthood Lawsuit
"Planned Parenthood reportedly received about $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars between 2013-15, most of it from the Medicaid program,” said Dr. Merrill Matthews. “While federal law prohibits that money from being used to provide abortion services, money is fungible. It can be used to pay many of the fixed expenses, freeing up other monies to provide abortion services. Attorney General Paxton's effort to defund Planned Parenthood simply recognizes that financial relationship,” Matthews said.
States Seek to Strike Obamacare Rule from Federal Regulations Code
Eight states are asking a court to strike an Obamacare rule they say violates their authority to protect the judgment and conscience rights of medical professionals.
Maybe Bernie Sanders Should Look This Cancer Patient in the Eye
Before Democrats force a government-run health care system on the U.S., they need to talk to patients who have been harmed by such a system. Inez Rudderham of Canada is ready to talk.
What to Expect Re: Medicare for All
"Medicare for All, I think, is going to be one of the key issues for Democrats going forward into the 2020 presidential campaign, [and] I suspect it'll be part of the Democratic Party platform."
Lessons for Democrats from the Social Security Trustees' Report
The most recent report from the Social Security trustees has four lessons for policymakers. Will Democratic presidential candidates learn them?
Masterson Online: Our Votes In Danger?
The best justification I've read of late for having the electoral college comes from Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Electoral College Protects All Americans Against the 'Tyranny of the Majority'
The Electoral College is one of the most critical institutions created by the framers of the Constitution to ensure a stable representative government, yet it’s under attack.
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