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Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar

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 SuicideExpanding 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.

October 22, 2024

A vote for Donald Trump is a Vote for Elon Musk

The government could significantly downsize if Trump, through Musk’s efficiency efforts, were to eliminate unneeded agencies and employees, combine agencies where duties and responsibilities overlap and slash regulations and red tape, something Trump did in his first term and promises to do again.

October 15, 2024

At $1 trillion, Biden-Harris the Most Wasteful Administration Ever

Politicians like to claim they will save taxpayer money by reducing waste, fraud and abuse, but virtually no one ever does. And these days they don’t even try.

October 8, 2024

Will the Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up?

The problem we’re now facing is that the real Harris won’t stand up and identify herself until after the election. 

October 1, 2024

You Can Kiss New Medical Cures Goodbye

Given the restrictions and uncertainty that comes with price controls, drug companies will be more cautious with their R&D spending, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

October 1, 2024

What They Aren't Telling You in That Crime-Reduction Happy Talk

While crime may be down or flat in some categories, that may be because the criminals have found a more lucrative and safer way to practice their profession--shoplifting. 

September 24, 2024

Harris's Agenda Mirrors the Democratic Socialists of America

While it’s possible that Harris would disagree with some DSA sub-points, it’s undeniable that she agrees, or has agreed, with the socialists on their major themes.

September 17, 2024

Biden Criticizes Mexico's Judicial Reforms Even as He Does the Same

Both Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his Morena party and Biden and Democrats say the current judicial system is a threat to democracy. But what they really want is a high court that kowtows to progressive demands. 

September 10, 2024

What 'Evangelicals for Harris' Gets Terribly Wrong

The admonition is for Christians, either individually or as a group (i.e., the church), to give of their own time and resources to help the poor. Voting for Kamala Harris does not fulfill that obligation. 

September 3, 2024

Swing-State Senate Races Looking Bad for Trump's Election

If current polls are accurately reflecting swing-state voters’ choices for their respective Senate candidates, those leads will likely determine those states’ choice for president. 

August 27, 2024

For Democrats, 'Freedom' is Just Another Word for Mandate

Convention speakers waxed eloquent on the freedom theme. But it was mostly a marketing ploy. They know Americans revere their God-given and constitutional freedoms and want to preserve them. So, Democrats are couching everything they want to do in the guise of freedom. 

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