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, June 1, 2007The Conventional Wisdom is WrongFiled As: Health CareThe conventional wisdom on health care reform is wrong. That's the title of an issue brief I recently wrote (available in PDF). Here are a few things that just aren't so. "45 million ... more »»
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Monday, April 23, 2007Who Are the Uninsured?Different situations, different solutions Filed As: Health CareWith "Cover the Uninsured Week" underway, it's time to review Understanding the Uninsured and What to Do About Them (PDF), a publication of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, or CAHI. ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007DTC Advertising is a Response to RegulationsDoctors "bought?" Companies seek out consumers Filed As: Health CareThe new GAO report on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, Prescription Drugs: Improvement Needed in FDA’s Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,(GAO-07-54) says that DTC spending has been growing at a little more than ... more »»
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Friday, April 6, 2007Government-Run Health Care Systems DisappointFiled As: Health CareThe United States is once again embarking on a national debate about health-care reform, one that will engage both the states and Congress, and will likely influence the outcome of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007Making Health Insurance More ExpensiveFiled As: Health CareWhile policymakers talk about finding ways to reduce the number of uninsured Americans, they pass laws that drive up the cost of insurance. How do the policymakers do this? By imposing insurance mandates, which in turn makes coverage unaffordable for millions of Americans. Yesterday the ... more »»
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Monday, February 19, 2007Is Government Administration of Health Care Cheapest?Filed As: Health CareOne appeal made on behalf of single-payer health care proposals is cost savings. Rep. Pete Stark (D-California), for example, touts a "2 percent" administrative cost of Medicare as a reason for expanding public programs. You may find state legislators making a similar argument. But ... more »»
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Friday, March 2, 2007Government Reinsurance Proposals Won't Improve Health InsuranceFiled As: Health CareState and federal politicians have suggested that governments become statewide or nationwide reinsurers. Is this a sound move? Proponents claim that requiring the government to take up the reinsurance function would lower premiums because insurers and employers would shift the most expensive ... more »»
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Friday, February 16, 2007Is Health Insurance Like Auto Insurance?Filed As: Health CareA government mandate that you purchase a health insurance policy has been compared to the requirement to buy auto insurnace. But there are plenty of differences between the two different kinds of insurance. Jon Caldara and I talk about the problems of individual requirements in an ... more »»
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Monday, February 12, 2007Subsidizing the RichFiled As: Health CareOne of the biggest problems facing our health care system is that most consumers have no idea how much health insurance and health care cost. People get a tax break for health insurance regardless of how much they spend. That means middle-class taxpayers are subsidizing Cadillac policies for ... more »»
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007Medicaid, Meet Welfare ReformFiled As: Health CareTo understand where Medicaid is and where it should go, consider welfare reform. As I wrote for USA Today back in late 2005, "Ironically, for the past decade, most governors have been trying to get people off the welfare rolls and into productive private-sector jobs. So why isn't the goal ... more »»
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