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.
Republicans Don't Like Earmarks, Except When They Do
Can Republicans embrace earmarks and gain voters' trust that they are fiscally responsible? There may be one way.
A National Sales Tax Would Be Simple and Efficient--But the Current Plan Won't Work
The only way a national sales tax could actually work is if the percentage could be significantly lower. But doing that would require Congress to vastly reduce federal spending. Not much chance of that.
Republicans Must Refuse to Suspend or Eliminate the Federal Debt Ceiling
Congress needs to keep a debt limit on federal spending because it is the only forcing mechanism to make Washington face how much money it's spending.
Estimating Illegal Immigration's Cost to Public Education
Immigrants can bring much-need workers, innovation and vitality to an economy. But while those benefits are limited when the immigration system is as dysfunctional and politically polarizing as ours, the costs are not.
In Defense of Corporate Layoffs
Yes, massive employee layoffs hurt, but they also allow companies to reposition themselves to become more efficient and weather economic downturns.
When Will the FBI Search Hunter Biden's Home for Classified Documents?
We know Hunter has engaged in lots of mostly shady foreign deals, trafficking on his name and connections rather than his expertise, which has brought him millions of dollars. So, he has a motive for wanting access to certain classified documents.
Did a Democrat Leak the Biden 'Filegate' Scandal to the Press?
It’s plausible, given what we know – or at least what we think we know – about the sources of the information, the timeline and the widespread opposition to Biden running for president again.
A Quick and Easy Way to Grow the Workforce
The economy needs more workers; here's what government can do to encourage more seniors to work.
The Worker-Shortage Mystery Solved--Mostly
A Federal Reserve Bank paper explains why so many employers are still struggling to find workers.
We Have a Republican Speaker, but No Republican Plan to Speak Of
What specifically do Republicans plan to do now? Where’s their five-point or 10-point plan for tackling inflation or crime? What’s their plan for crimping Biden’s spending spree?
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