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.
Attack of the Killer Taxes
Tis the season for cute little monsters going door to door seeking treats, and bad Washington-created monsters going bank account to bank account seeking to devour wealth.
Do Americans Want Bigger Government? Gallup Says...
Democrats are pushing the biggest expansion of government in history at a time when the majority of Americans say the government is already doing too much.
Why It's Time for Conservatives to Accept the 2020 Election Results and Move On
Donald Trump has never been able to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen. And while it may be impossible to prove it wasn’t stolen either, there are several reasons for conservatives to accept the results and move on.
Democrats Explained: Mandaters Gonna Mandate
These days the Democrats’ mandate list is long—and growing longer. But their embrace of mandates isn’t new.
Takeaways from Giveaways
Democrats hope that their massive federal spending spree would buy them votes. But it looks like all they're buying is voter anger.
Biden's Effort to Increase the Public's Access to Counterfeit Drugs
Biden wants to increase your access to deadly counterfeit drugs even as the DEA is trying to reduce that access.
The DC Swamp is Back--and It's Swampier Than Ever
The solution to this problem is simple to understand, though difficult to implement: If you want to drain the swamp, first drain big government.
Jeopardy: This Country Is Intent on Imposing a Communist Vision
President Biden's and President's Xi's visions and policy proposals are amazingly similar, which says more about the U.S. than China—and not in a good way.
What Happens When a Country Depends on Russia for Natural Gas?
Apparently, the EU is surprised and concerned that Russian natural gas shipments are slowing. EU members shouldn't be surprised since they were duly warned.
Vaccines Are the Future of Health Care
Future vaccines may be our best preventive medicine option for long-feared diseases. They may even become the preferred treatment option. Let’s hope they won’t be as politicized as the COVID-19 vaccines have, become because the least effective vaccine is the one a person refuses to take.
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