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Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD

Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD

Resident Scholar | Analyst | Writer — Institute for Policy Innovation

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 weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of 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, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, 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.

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Senate Majority Isn’t as Close As It Looks

The Democrats and their media allies would like you to believe that their chances of keeping control of the Senate are still good.  

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Democratic Candidates Running Away from Harris

Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vic...

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump

The Trump-Musk bromance has grown, especially over the last several months. They have a lot in common, but there are also some important differences....

Featured on: Friday, October 25, 2024

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Will Trump Outperform Polls?

Until the final election results are in on Nov. 5, or possibly later if the race is close, we won’t know how accurately the polls predicted the outcom...

Featured on: Friday, October 25, 2024

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Biden-Harris Spending

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently announced that the 2024 fiscal-year federal budget deficit — the amount the government spent over and a...

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Unlimited Abortion and the First Amendment

In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris lamented America's divisive politics...  

Featured on: Friday, October 25, 2024

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Need a Permit to Hold a Religious Sign?

First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the Town of Chapin, South Carolina on behalf of local resident Ernest Giardino after he was told a permit was...

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Texas Children’s Hospital is the nation’s largest freestanding pediatric hospital. Located in Houston, it ranks #1 in Texas and in the top tier of children’s hospitals in the U.S.

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UFOs and God

In all my years of doing a radio commentary, I have only mentioned UFOs and extraterrestrials a few times. I recently did an interview with Derrick Warfel about his book, UFOs and God, which is a comp...

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