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.
Effort to Reduce Income Inequality Helped or Harmed by Big Box Stores? (Audio: Interview)
What’s the impact of wage standards and workers’ benefits to taxpayers in relation to large employers, including Wal-Mart and Costco? Merrill Matthews on the Jan Mickelson Show, heard on WHO-AM in Des Moines.
Fixing the Doc Fix: Congressman Burgess Joins Merrill Matthews (Audio: Podcast)
Special guest Congressman Michael Burgess joins Merrill Matthews to discuss the repeal of the SGR, how the Obamacare website failure affects him personally, and the GOP alternative to achieving health care reform.
Pass the Bill to Find Out What’s In It, Like This Shocker About Medicaid (Audio: Interview)
You won’t believe what the fine print says in the Medicaid portion of Obamacare if you have outstanding Medicaid bills upon your death. Plus, the devastating effects of increasing the federal minimum wage on low-skilled workers. Merrill Matthews joins Wisconsin’s Vicki McKenna, heard on WIBA, WISN, and WEAU.
Demonstrating Further Economic Stupidity with Minimum Wage Hike Proposals (Audio: Interview)
Nothing shuts down businesses or sends low-skilled workers back home to live with parents quite like raising the federal minimum wage to a new high, Merrill Matthews tells WINA’s Rob Schilling on the Schilling Show.
How to Keep Low Skilled Workers Poor and Homeless: Raise the Minimum Wage (Audio: Interview)
Merrill Matthews joins KMED’s Bill Meyer explaining basic economics and what the disastrous consequences of raising the minimum wage would be to income inequality.
Ryan's Budget Deal: A Ransom to Prevent Another Government Shutdown? (Audio: Podcast)
What's in the Ryan-Murray budget deal, and did Ryan compromise too soon on abandoning the sequester spending restraints? Did the government shutdown serve as the final indictment and poison the well for Republicans on future budget standoffs? And a look into the growing tensions between the GOP leadership and conservative groups.
Deconstructing the Doc Fix (Audio: Interview)
Obamacare could cause such a draconian cut on both Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements that doctors may stop taking new patients from these programs altogether. Merrill Matthews talks with WAVA-FM's Don Kroah.
Harry Reid Erodes Power of Senate (Audio: Interview)
In an interview on the Janet Mefferd Show, Merrill Matthews discusses how Harry Reid pulling the nuclear option trigger erodes critical powers from the Senate and cedes them to the administration.
The Majority Leader Who Diminished the Senate (Audio: Podcast)
Harry Reid has pulled the nuclear option trigger in the Senate, begging the question if he even cares about his legacy. History books may describe Reid as the majority leader who diminished the role of the Senate to allow President Obama to pack the DC circuit court and better advance his own agenda. But if Republicans win in 2014, will Democrats regret this rewriting of Senate rules?
With "Fix," Obama Trades One Set of Problems For Another (Audio: Interview)
The president's last minute decree to made good on his promise that "if you like your insurance plan you can keep" is inciting an entirely new series of political and economic issues. Merrill Matthews explains to Joe Elliott on WGTK-Louisville.
What a Mess: The ObamaCare Rollout, Apology Tour and The Fix (Audio: Interview)
Merrill Matthews joins nationally syndicated Jason Lewis Show discussing the disastrous domestic policy crisis facing the Obama administration.
The ObamaCare Honey Pot To Buy Insurance Company Support (Audio: Interview)
IPI healthcare expert Merrill Matthews describes to The Blaze's Chris Salcedo the letter released by HHS to state insurance commissioners explaining how to deploy the president's last minute health care law fix.
Has Rule of Law Been Trumped by Rule of Expediency? (Audio: Podcast)
Do government agencies or even the president have the legal authority to ignore federal law? Has rule of law been abandoned for the rule of political expediency? IPI's Giovanetti and Matthews discuss recent government regulations which have been ignored after being found to be impossible to meet, including ObamaCare's health insurance mandate as well as a similar biofuel mandate issued by the EPA.
New ObamaCare Mandate Opens Door for Many More Problems (Audio: Interview)
Merrill Matthews joins KMED's Bill Meyer to discuss the new mental and behavioral health mandate and how it will worsen the sticker shock of insurance policies and increase fraud.
The Biggest Domestic Policy Lie Ever Told by a U.S. President (Audio: Podcast)
Tom Giovanetti and Dr. Merrill Matthews discuss the millions of health care policy cancellations, the ObamaCare website disaster, and how it all may impact not just the 2014 Congressional elections but even next week's Virginia governor's race.
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