(From my standard bio) Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. He is a public policy analyst specializing in health care issues, and is the author of numerous studies in health policy and 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 the past executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a health policy research and advocacy organization based in the Washington, DC, area. Dr. Matthews 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" (Routledge, 1998), "The 21st Century Health Care Leader" (Josey-Bass, 1998), and most recently, "Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud, 2009). He also serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Barron’s, USA Today and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network, and his commentaries occasionally appear on National Public Radio. For four years he had a one-minute commentary, “SoundBytes,” that runs daily on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, sponsored by the Institute for Policy Innovation. Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas. And he holds a fifth degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a first degree black belt in Kobudo (Japanese weapons).

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