Austin Hill

Doctors Fired, Administrators Hired: America’s Naivety Leads To Bad Medicine

A question for the American Medical Association: What were you thinking?

Let’s Ensure A Productive Future For America’s Youth

The jobs report wasn’t as bad as anticipated. Obamacare is killing jobs. There are fewer people working, but that’s okay because the unemployment rate still dropped last month. Obamacare is good because it helps the poor.

Don’t Let This Happen To Your Profession: AMA Culpable In Our Government Healthcare Fiasco

If you think ObamaCare is bad for consumers and patients think about this: how would you like to spend between twelve and sixteen years of your life in grueling and expensive academic training, only to have politicians and bureaucrats dictating to you years later how you will practice your craft and how much money you’ll be allowed to earn?

Oblivious: Washington DC Ignoring The Biggest Economic Transformation Of Our Lifetimes

The jobs report looks good. The jobs report wasn’t as bad as anticipated. There are fewer people working, but that’s okay - the unemployment rate still dropped last month. Are you fed up with the U.S. federal government’s “spin” and constant efforts to convince you that the labor market isn’t as bad as it seems?

Corporate Profits Decline: Time For A Celebration?

“Corporate Profits Lose Steam.” That was the headline atop a recent Wall Street Journal article. For those that become indignant about highly successful and profitable corporations, this should be really great news – right?

Is America Still “Pro-Business?”

The day started with an American CEO ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ in New York. And it ended with that same CEO announcing plans to cut his company’s American workforce.

Brazil Woke Up: What Americans Can Learn From The So-Called “Vinegar Revolt”

The headlines were telling, but the caption on the protester’s sign said it all: Brazil Woke Up.

Obamacare 2.0:  What Are Healthcare Practitioners Thinking?

As the battle rages-on over the implementation of the federal “Obamacare” law, there is an important question that rarely ever gets asked: what do actual health care practitioners think of it? Without the practitioners themselves, there would be no healthcare. Yet politicians, government bureaucrats, insurance executives and healthcare administrators have so thoroughly co-opted any discussion on the subject that actual healthcare professionals – doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants and the like – often appear as mere pawns in a big government game.

What IRS Scandal?

“Is this still America?” Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) asked rhetorically last Friday, as he and other members of the House Ways and Means Committee questioned IRS officials about the agency’s “targeting” scandal. With all due respect to the Congressman, here’s a rhetorical answer: this is Obama’s America, and it is unlike anything we’ve known before. And here are, perhaps, a couple of more pertinent questions that we should all be asking right now: do sufficient numbers of Americans actually see how our country has been transformed over the past four years or so, and do sufficient numbers of us care about it?

Can America “Minimum Wage” Itself To Prosperity?

What happens when the U.S. Secretary of Labor visits a church in Charlotte? If an incident earlier this month is any indication, faulty political promises and destructive economic policies continue to spread.

Three Years On:  Here’s Why Obamacare Has Become Irresistible

It has been federal law for three years. It has brought chaos to the labor markets. It has cost people their livelihoods and it is more unpopular than ever.

Obamacare, Socialism, And Rick Perry’s Assumptions

“The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. That’s what they think. That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012.”

Diminished Trust and Woodward’s Woes

It’s difficult to imagine that he was surprised by the outcome. But the White House response that ensued after Author and Journalist Bob Woodward dared to question and criticize the President should be an eye-opener to the world. And the fact that America’s beltway media culture has essentially “sided” with the President and seems quite comfortable with the White House hostility is a very telling sign.

Obamanomics And The Jewish Deli Dilemma

Did you hear the big news from the world of small business? Jewish delis are closing in both Los Angeles, and New York City.

Excuse Me, Your Illogic Is Showing

In the 1940’s and '50’s, famed Author George Orwell surmised that both the English language and civilized society were in decline.

France Wakes Up To A Socialist Reality: Will America?

“People call this the ‘new normal.’ Let me assure you there is nothing normal about this at all. It’s the new ‘abnormal,’ and it won’t last, because as free people we won’t stand for it…” With those remarks, business magnate and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes drew thunderous applause from his audience.

Equal Opportunity Destroyers: Politicians Of All Types Damage Small Business America

It’s not just an out-of-control IRS or EPA. And it’s not merely the punitive demands and restraints of the new federal healthcare law. American enterprise is being stifled and squelched by state and local governments, in ways that most Americans don’t even see. With increasing propensity, elected officials nationwide are at times suffocating private businesses with regulations, and at other times competing directly against them – and it happens among both Democrats and Republicans.

Saving America From The “Make Somebody Else Pay” Mindset

“I don’t know what ‘moral grounds’ you think you’re standing on, but as far as I am concerned, what you’re saying is very immoral…” I was an interview guest last month, and the radio talk show host was asking me about the looming fiscal cliff. In the midst of discussing how our government must cut spending, the host had noted the title of my latest book – “The Virtues Of Capitalism, A Moral Case For Free Markets” – and after a few minutes of discussion, asked “do you mind if we take a phone call, Austin?”

So Goes Venezuela, So Goes The U.S.? The Limited Powers Of Government Are Weighing In The Balance

Some Venezuelans are concerned that their President might be violating their nation’s Constitution. So, where have these Venezuelans been for the past 14 years? And do any Americans have the same concerns about their own President?

“Education Is The Key?” Assessing The Value Of A College Degree In A Tumultuous Economy

Half of recent college graduates can’t find employment. Those who find a job often settle for something less than a “college level job.”