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.
University Endowments Should Be the Primary Source of Student Loans
Here’s a modest proposal: Colleges and universities should draw from their own endowments to provide student loans before that obligation is foisted off on taxpayers.
Democrats' Increasing Disregard for Democracy
Progressive Democrats complain about threats to democracy. And yet, they are willing to disregard the democratic process if that’s what it takes to get their way. Biden’s half-trillion-dollar student loan “forgiveness” overreach is the latest and most egregious example.
Government Programs Have Become One Big Fraud-Fest
How much of America’s $30.7 trillion national debt is a result of fraud? A lot, and it’s growing exponentially.
Look at All the Problems in Blue-State Primary Elections
Red-state election changes were supposed to create election chaos; turns out the problems are in blue states.
The Democrats' Whatever-Tax-That-Can-Pass Approach
Responsible economists ask how a proposed tax increase could distort economic decisions; Democrats ask a different question.
Do Democrats See Us as a Nation of Tax Cheats?
The same people who have repeatedly claimed there is no election fraud think that large swaths of the public, especially high-income Americans and corporations, are not just avoiding taxes but cheating the government out of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal income tax obligations.
Let's Not Swim Upstream in Our Transition to Renewables
If transition advocates won’t acknowledge the problems we’ve experienced with renewables and provide balanced, logical and actionable solutions, we are right to question their motives and assertions of a smooth transition.
For Drug Companies, No Life-Saving Deed Goes Unpunished
We’ll never know what new drugs might have been developed but won’t be under the Democrats’ price controls.
Europe Faces the Russian Version of the Arab Oil Embargo
The EU is enduring the Russian version of the Arab oil embargo, in large part because it spurned multiple warnings over several years that Russia could and would use Europe’s energy dependence against
How the EPA Could (Will?) Undermine Joe Manchin's Energy Concessions
Joe Manchin may have received Chuck Schumer's assurances that the Senate will vote on energy permitting reforms, but that doesn't mean the EPA will honor those reforms.
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