Special guest Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D. joins the podcast with Merrill Matthews and describes how Congress is closer than ever before to repealing the SGR's flawed formula. Burgess, noting how the failure of the Obamacare website affects him personally, also discusses Republicans' alternatives to achieving health care reform and solutions for those with preexisting conditions.

You won't believe what the fine print says in the Medicaid portion of Obamacare if you have outstanding Medicaid bills upon your death. Plus, the devastating effects of increasing the federal minimum wage on low-skilled workers. Merrill Matthews joins Wisconsin's Vicki McKenna, heard on WIBA, WISN, and WEAU.

Nothing shuts down businesses or sends low-skilled workers back home to live with parents quite like raising the federal minimum wage to a new high, Merrill Matthews tells WINA's Rob Schilling on the Schilling Show.

Merrill Matthews joins KMED's Bill Meyer explaining basic economics and what the disastrous consequences of raising the minimum wage would be to income inequality.

Tom Giovanetti and Merrill Matthews discuss what's in the Ryan-Murray budget deal, and ask if Ryan compromised too soon to abandon the sequester spending restraints. Did the October government shutdown serve as the final indictment and poison the well for Republicans on future budget standoffs? The discussion also highlights the growing tensions between the GOP leadership and conservative groups.

Each year, Congress has tried to control Medicare spending without cutting physicians' reimbursement rates by passing the "Doc Fix." But now Obamacare could cause such a draconian cut on both Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements that doctors may stop taking new patients from these programs altogether. Merrill Matthews talks with WAVA-FM's Don Kroah.

In an interview on the Janet Mefferd Show, Merrill Matthews discusses how Harry Reid pulling the nuclear option trigger erodes critical powers from the Senate and cedes them to the administration.

Harry Reid has pulled the nuclear option trigger in the Senate, begging the question if he even cares about his legacy. History books may describe Reid as the majority leader who diminished the role of the Senate to allow President Obama to pack the DC circuit court and better advance his own agenda. But if Republicans win in 2014, will Democrats regret this rewriting of Senate rules?

The president's last minute decree to made good on his promise that "if you like your insurance plan you can keep" is inciting an entirely new series of political and economic issues. Merrill Matthews explains to Joe Elliott on WGTK-Louisville.

Merrill Matthews joins nationally syndicated Jason Lewis Show discussing the disastrous domestic policy crisis facing the Obama administration.