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.
GMO Foods and the Anti-Science Left
You wouldn't know it from the media, but those on the political left, not conservatives, are the real anti-science hardliners. Just look at genetically modified foods.
Donald Trump Faces The Real Possibility Of A Brokered Convention, Kasich Thinks He'll Get the Nod Over His Rival
If the business tycoon gets the most votes and delegates out of all Republican presidential candidates, he may still get stripped off the possible nomination by way of a brokered convention. “The notion that you go in with a plurality, therefore you deserve the nomination is just flat wrong,” said Merrill Matthews, IPI resident scholar.
History Suggests Brokered Convention Will Doom Donald Trump
Trump insists that the convention will have to pick him if he has more delegates than any other hopeful but short of the 1,237 majority needed to win on the first ballot. “The notion that you go in with a plurality, therefore you deserve the nomination is just flat wrong,” said Merrill Matthews, resident scholar at the Dallas-based think tank Institute for Policy Innovation.
Why Are Liberals Never the Swing Votes on the Supreme Court?
Judge Garland might have a great legal mind, but there is little reason to think he would be anything other than a reliable liberal vote—because virtually all of the Court’s liberals are reliable liberal votes, and have been for decades.
A Picture of the Obama Economy
If a picture is worth a thousand words, so is a graph. We have compiled several graphs that convey a picture of the Obama economy, and it isn't pretty.
Donald Trump Could Very Well End Up Running As An Independent Candidate
Donald Trump’s loss in winner-take-all Ohio keeps alive the possibility of a contested GOP convention that denies Trump the nomination.
Is China Ready For Supply-Side Economics?
Chinese President Xi Jinping raised eyebrows when he recently announced that his new slogan would be “supply-side structural reform" - or Reaganomics.
Puerto Rico Already Has SandersCare and It's Broke
We don’t have to wait until he is elected to see Sanders’s ideal health care system; we can look at Puerto Rico.
Nevada Has Passed the Most Forward-Thinking, Child-Empowering School Option in America
You know what means: The American Civil Liberties Union and other liberals are doing everything they can to stop it.
Not Much There In Trumpcare
Although six of his seven points—they aren’t developed enough to be called proposals—are standard Republican fare, they are too vague and superficial to determine what Trumpcare would be like.
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