Health Care Policy Analyst

Merrill Matthews

1 article 2004

Merrill Matthews is a public policy analyst and resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, focusing on health care and economic policy issues. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2004, writing about the Bush administration's health care agenda.

Bush's Unheralded Health Care Agenda

December 27, 2004 · Features, Magazine, Merrill Matthews

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS PROPOSED WHAT appears at first glance to be a relatively modest agenda of health care reforms. But if passed by Congress in its entirety, the administration's plan would fundamentally restructure the health care system. It would turn upside down--actually, rightside up--almost…