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.
The Clear Pattern that Emerged from the 2022 Midterm Election (Audio: Podcast)
There was no red wave, but there should have been. Actually, a certain profile of Republican candidate won big, while another profile of Republican candidate dramatically underperformed. The difference: Association with Donald Trump. Tom Giovanetti, Merrill Matthews.
20 Years Later, the 'Axis of Evil' is Bigger, Bolder and More Evil (Audio: Podcast)
Since George W. Bush coined the term “Axis of Evil” twenty years ago, the Axis has changed and grown, with ominous implications for the future. Merrill Matthews, Tom Giovanetti.
The 25th Amendment and Biden; the 14th Amendment and Trump (Audio: Podcast)
Under what circumstances might President Biden face removal from the White House under the 25th Amendment, and under what circumstances might Donald J. Trump be barred from holding public office again under the 14th Amendment? And how lousy is it that we have to even consider those possibilities? With IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Mark Cuban Is Disrupting Health Care, and That's a Good Prescription (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains to IPI President Tom Giovanetti how Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs could provide much needed disruption in the market for generic prescription drugs.
The Grave Threat of an Impending Rail Strike on the U.S. Economy (Audio: Podcast)
In the face of a threatened freight rail strike, just as the country is pulling out of supply chain problems, IPI records a special timely podcast episode with experts on the issue: Daniel Ogden, Professor of Global Trade and Supply Chain at Baylor University, and Jerry Glass of F+H Solutions Group, a management and labor consulting organization. Why is a strike threatened? Are the unions being reasonable? What can the Biden administration or Congress do? And how much damage to the economy might result from a strike? With the able assistance of IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews and IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
Is a 25th Amendment Removal in Joe Biden's Future? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar discusses his recent piece in The Hill raising questions about President Biden’s obvious slippage with IPI President Tom Giovanetti. Because there is little to no partisan advantage to either party to remove Biden, raising the question isn’t about partisan politics but rather is about the good of the nation, and of the free world. And it’s not as if a 25th Amendment removal wasn’t almost a constant topic in the media during the Trump administration. Double-standard much?
The 25th Amendment and Joe Biden's Future (Audio: Interview)
IPI Resident Scholar Merrill Matthews joins the Rod Arquette Show to discuss his op-ed in the Hill regarding the mental health of President Biden.
How We Know State Election Integrity Laws Aren't Suppressing the Vote (Audio: Podcast)
An analysis of voter turnout in states that pass voting integrity laws in the last two years, including by racial group breakdown, demonstrates that the recent election integrity laws are not suppressing voter turnout. With IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews and President Tom Giovanetti.
IPI Policy Basics: Who Are the Uninsured? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews talks us through an analysis of the composition of the uninsured population in the United States. IPI President Tom Giovanetti reminds us of the problem of large numbers, and both conclude that the problem of the uninsured is exaggerated or at least overestimated.
What's Wrong with Common Good Conservatism? (Audio: Podcast)
An article in today’s The Federalist website gives IPI president Tom Giovanetti occasion to rant against supposedly “common good conservatism” and it’s betrayal of the ideas behind the American founding. With IPI resident scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Progressive Policies are Backfiring on Democrats at the Mid-Term Election (Audio: Podcast)
There are four major policy areas—inflation, crime, the border, and gas prices—that voters have identified as their top concerns at the midterm election, and all four of these are areas where Democrats gave free rein to the progressive left, and having sowed the wind, are poised to reap the whirlwind. With IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Democrats CAN'T Stop Biden from Running in 2024 (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews leads a discussion with IPI President Tom Giovanetti on one of Tom’s favorite topics, the extreme weakness of the political parties. In short, the Democratic Party is too weak to prevent Joe Biden from running again if he chooses to do so.
Nominate Lousy Candidates, Lose Easy Elections (Audio: Podcast)
The problem of highly flawed Republican candidates is well-recognized, but why have Republicans done this? How do Republicans nominate flawed, unvetted and inexperienced candidates that will have obvious problems winning a general election? IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews shares his thoughts with IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
An Energy Crisis Entirely of Democrat's Making (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews weave together several recent threads of energy news to explain how the current and future energy crisis in the US and in Europe is almost entirely the making of Obama and especially Biden administration policy.
Is It a Lie or Just a Difference of Opinion? (Audio: Podcast)
Riffing off an observation by Commentary’s Noah Rothman, IPI Research Fellow Merrill Matthews notices that recent Democrat administrations have dispensed with “spin” and now just plain lie to the American people with impunity. We never thought we’d miss “spin doctors.” Dr. Matthews runs through a short list (it could have been much longer) of direct lies and outright obfuscation by the Biden and Obama administrations, with IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
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