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.
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Joe Biden: Organized Crime's Best Friend
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Guess Who's Spending Billions on Empty Buildings?
The federal government owns or leases thousands of buildings, and a shockingly large percentage of them are sitting empty.
Why Inflation, Which Recently Ticked Up, Will Likely Decline Soon
The latest inflation uptick seems to prove, once again, Milton Friedman's connection between inflation and the money supply.
Here Come the Gender-Detransitioner Lawsuits
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Eroding Patent Rights Threatens U.S. Cancer Patients
It's no exaggeration to say that a cure for cancer depends on strong patent protections. The Bayh-Dole system has worked remarkably well. Yet the Biden administration seeks to break what has never been broken.
Chicago Is a Food Desert Because It's a Crime Paradise
Instead of reversing policies that have caused grocery and department stores to flee Chicago, the mayor has decided the city will open its own grocery store.
'Stop the Steal' Is Falling, But Its Damage Can't Be Undone
It’s hard to overstate the irony that one of the leading instigators and promoters of the 2020 stolen-election narrative, attorney Sidney Powell, who accused so many others of election interference, has now pleaded guilty to … wait for it … election interference.
What influence have independent candidacies had in the history of US presidential elections?
Republicans and Democrats closely control every political aspect in the US and in election season, they predominate over any other option for the presidency. However, alternative or independent candidacies have had significant impacts throughout history.
What if You Pushed an EV Revolution and Nobody Came?
Consumers are slowing their purchase of EVs, even as environmentalists and Democrats press consumers harder, backed by taxpayer dollars, to buy EVs.
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