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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.

October 11, 2017

Trump's Healthcare Executive Order Could Destabilize Already Fragile Market

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

To be sure, the scope of Trump's executive order remains to be seen, and there are some who hold that concerns over insurance market bifurcation are overblown. "It's an overstated risk," said Merrill Matthews, resident scholar and health policy expert at the Institute for Policy Innovation. Most Americans get insurance through their employers, Medicare and Medicaid, and Obamacare enrollees who get generous subsidies may decide to stay there. "You're really only talking about the individual market," he said.

October 10, 2017

Obamacare Hasn't Expanded Individual Health Coverage

After years of Democratic-imposed political and health insurance turmoil, the individual health coverage hasn't changed. 

October 3, 2017

Here's What Simple Tax Reform Looks Like

If Republicans are successful in passing tax reform, your return could look like this.

October 2, 2017

Eagle Ford Output Rebounds After Harvey

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

Merrill Matthews, an analyst with the independent Institute for Policy Innovation, said while Harvey "was certainly a disruption event, the remarkable thing it wasn’t more disruptive," to energy markets.

September 28, 2017

Survey: Electric Vehicles Fail to Spark Consumer Sales

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

The Chevy Bolt, touted by electric car advocates as the plug-in electric vehicle for the masses, has yet to make significant inroads into overall car and truck sales.

September 28, 2017

US Energy Is Surviving Hurricane Season Unscathed

The hurricanes have undoubtedly been devastating, but they proved that the energy sector is strong — and getting stronger.

September 26, 2017

Trump Should End Obamacare Subsidy Payments Now

President Trump put an Obamacare constitutional problem on hold hoping Republicans would fix it. They didn’t, and it’s time to return to the Constitution.

September 19, 2017

Trump Bumps, and May Even Dump, the UN Swamp

President Trump delivers straight talk and perhaps a veiled warning to the United Nations.

September 19, 2017

Prediction: Congress the Exception in 'Medicare-for-all'

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews

A so-called Medicare-For-All plan continues to add left-wing supporters on Capitol Hill but a right-wing critic suspects they wouldn't be part of it.

September 17, 2017

Dems Force 'Medicare for All' On Americans But Exempt Themselves

Having destroyed the private health insurance market, Democrats have a new target in their sights: Medicare. Just don’t expect any of them to be part of the system they would force everyone else to be in.

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