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.
Texas Landowners Victorious In Groundwater-Rights Case
Merrill Matthews said the decision provides some much-needed clarity. “The Texas Supreme Court’s ruling in Coyote Lake is helpful because it provided some clarity in water rights, which in Western states are extremely important. The decision also reaffirms the role of contracts in an efficiently working economy.”
How to Use Life Insurance to Pay for Prescription Drugs
There is a little-known way to pay for new, cutting-edge prescription drugs if a patient is facing significant out-of-pocket costs: life insurance.
How Payers Could Succeed in ACA Health Insurerance Exchanges
“What the Affordable Care Act was intended to do was to bring everyone into a relatively low deductible, low co-pay health insurance policy that was going to cover the vast majority of their expenses. What we have are very high-deductible policies that are forcing people to pay for an awful lot of care out of pocket that they used to pay for with health insurance,” Dr. Merrill Matthews said.
The Justice Department Fights Health Insurers Trying to Survive the Obamacare Wasteland
The Obama administration’s efforts to keep four insurers from becoming two may mean that only one or none will continue selling on the Obamacare exchanges.
Think This Election is Over? Five Things That Could Dramatically Flip the Polls
The growing disgust with both major candidates may be driving voters to the Libertarian and Green parties, making the outcome even harder to predict.
Hillary Clinton Wants to Dictate Who You Buy From
Trade protectionism is a type of nepotism, because its people of power or influence trying to protect favored industries or unions from the impact of competition.
Actually, We May Have Two of the Least Qualified Presidential Candidates In History
When you balance the “qualifiers” with the “disqualifiers,” it isn’t clear that either candidate is really qualified, much less “the most qualified.”
The Right Way to Increase Social Security Benefits
There is a way to increase the Social Security benefits of perhaps half of those age 65 and older, and it involves cutting taxes, not raising them.
Christian Leader and Author Tim LaHaye Dies at 90
Tim LaHaye's view of the end times as expressed in his 'Left Behind' series was influential in expanding the market for Christian fiction," said Merrill Matthews, IPI resident scholar. "The basic tenets of premillennial dispensationalism that emerged in the series were already embraced by many evangelicals. LaHaye's contribution was to put that theology in a format that was more accessible and relatable to readers.
The Democratic Convention Will Be a Buffet of Vote-Buying and Phony Promises
This year’s convention is set to be a four-day effort to buy votes with taxpayer and employer money.
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