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.
Trump Vows to Cut EPA If Elected
"If either [Trump or Cruz] wins the White House, it’s the EPA's, not the human race's, existence that will be threatened,” IPI's Merrill Matthews said.
Why Losing Welfare Benefits Helps Welfare Recipients
As an Oregon welfare reform pilot program demonstrated in the 1990s, when people looking for welfare benefits were told they would have to work for their benefits, about a third walked out saying if they had to work they’d find their own job.
A Republican Healthcare Reform That May Not Work
Republicans have been pushing a health care reform idea that is unlikely to work—at least the way the health insurance system is currently structured.
Climate Alarmists Manipulate Data to Make 2015 Hottest Year on Record
A new paper is explaining why NOAA’s conclusions about 2015 are too hot.
Viewpoints: Cure Cancer
Our success in effectively treating cancer is probably going to come from the private sector not the government, Dr. Merrill Matthews reminds us.
Economics in Action: Wal-Mart Raises Wages Then Closes Stores
Higher wages are nice, but not when it costs you your job.
Fact-Checking Obama On Obamacare
President Obama took to praising his health care law in his weekly radio address, but most of his claims are misleading if not downright false.
Why Bernie Sanders Epitomizes the New Democratic Party
The Democratic Party of 2016 is much more aligned with Sanders than Clinton.
Obama Rejects Clean Power Plan Limits
“The better hope for ending the federal power grab may come from the states, which have found lots of new reasons to embrace the Constitution’s federalism and challenge federal overreach,” said IPI's Merrill Matthews.
I Wasted $20 On A Child's Book About Hillary
I found the book on the biography shelf of the children’s section at the bookstore. But the tone is so glowing, and so many important facts about Hillary’s life are left out, that it might have been a better fit in the religion section.
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