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.
No, Democrats Cannot Stop Biden from Running for Reelection
We’re faced with a bizarre situation in which a majority of Democrats say they don’t want Biden running again, and half or more of Republicans don’t want Trump running again. Yet it’s entirely plausible that Biden and Trump could be the two major parties’ presidential nominees in 2024.
Biden's Effort to Make the Energy Shortage Even Worse
Biden has the most chaotic energy policy of any president in modern history, and his flirtation with an oil export ban is just the latest example.
Bad Candidates and Split Tickets, Not Voter Fraud, Could Lose Key Elections for GOP
Even if Republicans see a probable red wave come November, it’s likely that several winnable seats will be lost because of not embracing Buckley’s wisdom.
Environmental Equity Clashes with Gender Equality
Defenders promote the Green New Deal as a solution for some of our social and economic inequality issues, but it actually appears to be causing some of them.
Why Aren't India and China Opposing Russia's Ukraine Colonization?
Imperial Russia is, once again, seeking to expand its empire. Those countries that were once the subject of colonizing efforts should be the loudest voices in opposition.
Trump Proposed a 'Dreamer' Pathway to Citizenship--Democrats Said 'No'
VP Harris has called on Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for those who are undocumented.The irony is that it was Democrats, not Republicans, who killed the last, best chance to create that pathway, at least for “Dreamers.”
The EU Channels Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and It Won't Go Well
The European Union has proposed taking $140 billion of capital away from energy-producing companies, even as the EU scrambles to get companies to invest in more energy production.
Will Election Denialism Become as Common as Presidential Elections?
The trend of claiming an election was stolen, without any evidence to back it up, may be the biggest threat facing our democracy.
The Dirty Little Cost Behind Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Ploy
Will future college students get their student loans forgiven? It's not in Biden's executive order, but he'll likely propose it before the 2024 presidential election.
Blame Government and the Greens for Europe's Energy Crisis
A professor explains the political and policy errors behind the EU's rejection of fracking, making it so dependent on Russia for its natural gas.
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