{"id":6608,"date":"2013-10-10T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2013-10-10T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:10:20","slug":"vdh-on-the-john-batchelor-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/vdh-on-the-john-batchelor-show\/","title":{"rendered":"VDH on The John Batchelor Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday\u00a0 8 October 2013 \/ Hour 1, Block C:\u00a0<\/strong>Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Silicon Valley on the ACA website: CoverCalifornia, the state site, says that 16,000 household apps are moving through the system; The thousands of phone calls had a 30-minute wait.\u00a0\u00a0 Cal has highest poverty rate in the nation – one-third of our population.\u00a0 This is ground zero \u2013 Silicon Valley created all the historical software \u2013 and if it doesn\u2019t work here, with the technology, the blue state, and the impoverished population, where will it work? We have an enormous number of clinics for poor people so there’s no incentive to sign up; I think that people just won’t sign up.\u00a0 We have six or seven million illegal immigrants who won’t care to enter all their information. The real story is daily anecdotal information. One person’s health plan went from $700 too $1,300.\u00a0 Companies are just jacking up rates.\u00a0 Why would young people sign up for this? They’re in great health. One of my children, twenty-something, works part-time in various jobs; can get a catastrophic plan for $150\/mo.\u00a0\u00a0 GOP erred in trying to defund ACA by a resolution \u2013 can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 Needed to delay for ne year the individual mandate, wd have got support from Dems, esp Joe Manchin.\u00a0\u00a0 Also needed to save ammo for the debt ceiling.\u00a0 No one likes the medical device tax or Congressional staff exemptions \u2013 GOP damaged itself strategically. People not aware that the medical device tax includes cochlear implants and cardiac pacemakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday\u00a0 8 October 2013 \/ Hour 1, Block C:\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Silicon Valley on the ACA website: CoverCalifornia, the state site, says that 16,000 household apps are moving through the system; The thousands of phone calls had a 30-minute wait.\u00a0\u00a0 Cal has highest poverty rate in the nation – one-third of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1IA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7674,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-valley-of-the-shadow\/","url_meta":{"origin":6608,"position":0},"title":"The Valley of the Shadow","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"How mansion-dwelling, carbon-spewing cutthroat capitalists can still be politically correct. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Silicon Valley is an American success story. 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