Episode 3568: Merrill Matthews on Kamalanomics, “freedom” = mandates, & the folly of “Evangelicals for Harris” – Pratt on Texas 9/23/2024

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. Merrill Matthews joins us to talk about the 2024 presidential election and we work from several of his columns that have recently appeared in The Hill, including:

• For Democrats, ‘Freedom’ is Just Another Word for Mandate
• Are You Ready for ‘Kamalanomics?’
• What ‘Evangelicals for Harris’ Gets Terribly Wrong

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a health policy expert and regular columnist at The Hill. He has worked with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank” in the Metroplex for many years.
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, The Hill, 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.
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