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.
Democrats' Bad Drug Deal
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Rick Scott Wants to Make Welfare Reform Great Again
Unfortunately, Scott’s “Let’s Get to Work Act” will likely face an uphill battle in Congress. Seemingly, the only welfare reform the left supports is either free money or free benefits, or both.
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Hundreds of thousands of government workers haven't returned to work, and it's not entirely clear why.
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President Biden is criticizing refineries for the high price of gasoline, when the real culprits are the president and his policies.
The Next Financial Hammer to Fall: Public Pension Funds
The public pension situation could get really messy in the near future.
Under Biden Crude Oil Pipeline Construction Goes from Boom to Bust
President Biden and his policies have roadblocked several aspects of energy production, including pipeline construction.
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