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.
Where's the Proof Climate Change Causes the Polar Vortex?
Liberals, the media and even a fair number of scientists feel compelled to reassert that the excessive cold is “the result of global warming.”
One BIG Reason Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much
Pfizer has ended its quest to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, but the research costs live on and must be absorbed in the price of other products.
U.S. Trade Agreements: Reasons For Restraint
As Merrill Matthews of the Institute for Policy Innovation noted in a Jan. 2 Wall Street Journal op-ed column, NAFTA participants Canada, Mexico and the United States are codependent on energy and benefit from the trade agreement’s tariff terms.
How Trump's Second Year Can Top His First
President Trump made a lot of progress in 2017—a lot more than many expected. Now the question is whether his second year can top his first.
Free Trade Has Been A Boon to Energy Independence
Energy independence for the U.S. alone is still years away. But thanks to free trade, energy independence for North America is within our grasp. A modernized Nafta can help make that goal a reality very soon.
How Average Americans Benefit From the GOP Tax Reform
Here’s one way millions of Americans will benefit from the Republican tax reform, even if they don’t benefit directly from lower tax rates: the booming stock market.
We May All Be Exempt from Obamacare's Mandate--Sooner or Later
Obamacare drafters created an escape hatch, which they never thought they'd see it being used: the law's definition of "affordable" coverage. It allows people to escape the mandate if insurance is too expensive—which it increasingly is.
Kids Get Health Coverage While Taxpayers Get the Shaft
The “crowd-out effect” of CHIP would be an important lesson to remember as Congress tackles welfare reform next year.
Budgets First, Patients Last
The Medicare Part B prescription drug program works reasonably well, providing some of the sickest patients with access to the newest and most innovative drugs. Now MedPAC wants to change it, and not for the better.
End the Individual Mandate
Ending the mandate would allow people in the individual market who do not receive the taxpayer subsidies to find an affordable policy.
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