Merrill Matthews
Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. He is a public policy analyst specializing in health care, Social Security, welfare and Internet issues, and is the author of numerous studies in health policy, as well as other public policy issues. He is past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists, and health policy advisor for the American Legislative Exchange Council, a bipartisan association of state legislators.
Dr. Matthews serves as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to two recently published books: Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998) and The 21st Century Health Care Leader (Josey-Bass, 1998).
He is a “Brain Trust” columnist for Investor’s Business Daily and has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, USA Today and The Washington Times. He is the political analyst for USA Radio Network and an occasional commentator for National Public Radio.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Friday, October 24, 2008Massachusetts Tightens Mandate on BusinessesBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareIn Massachusetts, the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (DHCFP) recently adopted revised more »»
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008Florida Medicaid Chief Recommends Pilot Project ExpansionBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareIn the face of a slackening state economy and a growing budget deficit, the Agency for Health Care Administration, the state's Medicaid regulator, has recommended expanding a Medicaid pilot project initiated by former Governor Jeb Bush (R) to 20 more counties, including Miami-Dade. The ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008Arizona Ballot Measure May be a Model for OthersBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Ballot questions (health), Health CareSince the introduction of Proposition 101 in Arizona, the initiative has been considered in Wisconsin, and may be discussed at the upcoming American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Washington, D.C. It has the potential to change the debate from a focus on what government can do ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008Expanding Medicaid Won't HelpBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareAdding people to Medicaid is a favorite tactic of some politicians, but many patients already enrolled in Medicaid can't get medical care. Administrators have made major cuts to reimbursement rates, to the point that many physicians lose money on Medicaid patients. In New York, for example, physicians ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008Government Obesity in ActionBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareA Los Angeles city councilwoman thinks Angelenos are too fat. So she’s pushing legislation that bans new fast food restaurants like McDonalds and KFC.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008Health Insurance PoolsBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareOne public-policy challenge is to find a way to provide coverage to the uninsurable without destroying the individual health insurance market. High-risk pools are one way, as I discussed in a recent op-ed published by the Washington ... more »»
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Thursday, June 19, 2008Last One in the Pool ... May Not Make Any DifferenceBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareIn Tennessee, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) has signed into law a bill (S.B. 4014) to allow small employers to form cooperatives to negotiate for group health insurance. Several state legislatures have considered plans in recent years to form similar business cooperatives in an effort to reduce the costs of small ... more »»
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Friday, June 6, 2008Minnesota Tones Down Expansion PlansBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareNo sooner had Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) vetoed HF 3391 -- a health reform bill pushed by the Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) -- then the legislature passed a more moderate proposal expected to gain the governor's signature. SF 3780 included many similar provisions to the vetoed HF 3391, but did ... more »»
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008From a Private Good to a Public Good to a Public BadBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareJust last week I was commenting to someone how long it had been since I had heard anything from Families USA, the pro-government run health care group that likes to call itself a "consumer" organization."Could it be," I asked, "that they had decided to find something useful ... more »»
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Friday, June 6, 2008Iowa Creates "Medical Homes"By Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareIowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) has signed HF 2539, the health reform package finally agreed upon by the legislature. Like many other states, Iowa created a commission to study health reform and agreed upon a fairly ambitious agenda, but in the end, more modest reforms passed, including:
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