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.
About the 'Warmest Year in Recorded History'
Global temperatures have been rising, but focusing on "recorded history" is a very limited time frame.
Don't Impose New Fears on Old Vaccines
Because of the administration’s flip-flops and overreach in combating COVID, we may be seeing needless outbreaks of several children’s diseases.
The 2024 Election Results Could Be Challenged--No Matter Who Wins
Ironically, post-2020 efforts undertaken by both political parties to, in their view, expand voting access and ensure election integrity could be used by the losing party to justify a claim that the election was rigged or stolen.
How Electric Vehicles Will Strand Cold-State Drivers
Northern states that are mandating the transition to EVs in the near future may leave drivers out in the cold.
Blame Washington for Drug Shortages
America is experiencing the worst shortage of prescription medicines in nearly a decade. Patients and their physicians are struggling to obtain more than 300 drugs, mostly generics.
State 'Social Equity Entrepreneur' Efforts Go to Pot
Apparently, becoming a "social equity entrepreneur," is a license to LOSE money.
The Big Ruse: Democrats Now Claim to Be 'Values Voters'
Democrats won’t be promoting American values, they will be pushing center-left policies hidden behind conservative-leaning phrases.
Comparing Responses to Two Prominent GOP Sex Scandals
The Florida GOP’s response to allegations against Ziegler could be considered an example of an effort to take the moral high ground. But then how to explain many Republicans’ lack of interest in the more numerous, and in some cases more serious, allegations against Trump?
What Donald Trump Can Learn from Switzerland
The Swiss understand that eliminating tariffs helps consumers and the economy. Donald Trump hasn't learned that lesson.
A 'Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions' Movement Conservatives Can Support
Colleges and universities need to step up and ensure the safety of their students—all students. If that means getting the federal government to “divest” from those that don’t, it will send an important message and save some taxpayer money.
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