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.
Weed and Greed: How Marijuana Taxation Went Up in Smoke
Greedy politicians always push for high tax rates, which leads to gaming the system or illegal activity. Greed leads to more greed, and especially with weed.
Standing Up for American Innovators, Investors, and Risk-takers
Comments to the U.S. International Trade Commission regarding the proposed extension of the TRIPS intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics.
Biden's Health and the Threat of an AI Presidential Campaign
It sounds a bit farfetched, voters could ultimately be voting for the clone they see in ads, rather than the candidate they don’t see.
Note to the Wall Street Journal: Republicans Aren't Raising Taxes
Republicans want to cut certain clean energy subsidies, which were increased or extended under Democrats.
I'm From the Government, and I'm Here to Take
Team Biden Looks for an Excuse to Impose Price Controls
A new working group has been tasked with redefining the Bayh-Dole Act’s march-in rights.
Is the EPA About to Overreach Its Authority Again?
The EPA is once again preparing to impose massive new regulations, this time on power-plant emissions. Will it overreach its authority, yet again, as it has done so often?
Why Democrats Should Support a Work Requirement for Welfare
Ensuring those who don’t need help stay out of the program means there is more money and time available to provide assistance for those who do need help.
This May Be Biden's Most Egregious Taxpayer Giveaway Yet
The EPA is handing out taxpayer dollars to groups to help them train environmental justice groups to ask for even more taxpayer dollars.
No, Biden Can't Let 'Dreamers' Join ObamaCare
The Biden administration plans, without congressional approval, to change the definition of those who are considered lawfully present in the United States to include Dreamers.
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