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Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar

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 SuicideExpanding 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.

February 13, 2018

Republicans Still Haven't Learned Their Lesson from 2006

Republicans claimed they learned their lesson about big-government spending when voters put Democrats in control of the House and Senate in 2007; but it looks like they haven't learned a thing. 

February 7, 2018

SOTU: Trump Hit A Grand Slam and Touched All Bases

By virtually any traditional measure -- as well as a few nontraditional measures -- President Donald Trump's first State of the Union (SOTU) address was a great success. Let us count the ways.

February 6, 2018

Trump May Have a Prescription for High Drug Prices

President Trump wants to address the high price of some prescription drugs, and new bilateral trade agreements would be a good place to start.

January 30, 2018

Tax Competition Explodes and the Left Hates It

Tax competition is good for economies, just like other forms of competition; and the new tax reform law has made U.S. corporate tax rates competitive again.

January 25, 2018

The Republican Tax Reform Is Achieving Democratic Goals

Why are Democrats so critical of the Republican tax reform? It is rapidly achieving many of the Democrats’ economic goals.

January 23, 2018

Renewables Aren't Up to the Job; We Need to Tap the World's Vast Fossil Fuel Resources!

Energy independence for the U.S. alone is still years away -- and may never arrive if we rely solely on renewables. But thanks to free trade, energy independence for North America is within our grasp.

January 23, 2018

Trump Tries to Save U.S. Solar but May Kill It Instead

President Trump has imposed tariffs on imported solar panels and solar cells, but is that an effort to save the solar industry or undermine it?

January 16, 2018

Republicans: Don't Go Squishy on Welfare Reform

Republicans shouldn't fear welfare reform; they should embrace it because, like tax reform, they're good at it.

January 11, 2018

Trump Thinks Congress Should Consider the Return of Earmarks

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

Merrill Matthews at the Institute for Policy Innovation tells KTRH it's not so farfetched; that it might 'grease the skids' for deals to get done.

January 10, 2018

Those Drug Prices ... Oh, My Goodness!

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

It's an issue of bipartisan concern, but what can be done to fix prescription drug prices?

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