Can Trump have one News Conference without Slamming and Insulting the Democrats?

[Markle]

Those life-saving techniques were not devised because of insurance companies, or how a provider is reimbursed by insurance companies. Because insurance companies have nothing to do with health care delivery. All they do is administer payments.

You're slow, I understand.

We have a for-profit health care system that makes all these innovations possible.

Now try hard, please tell us how many more life-saving drugs, life-extending drugs, new technology and procedures developed by your single payer countries than the United States.

If you don't think they have anything to do with new developments, you are a fool. Who pays those drug companies, companies that develop and produce the technology used every day?

IF health insurance companies have nothing to do with health care delivery, how does it get paid?

 

[Markle]

So after being a tool and pointing out that it's 2017, not 2013 (what you literally wrote), here you are using data from 2013 and 2014. I also notice your Op-Eds are from 2016. Well, here's one from this year that busts your myths:

From OC Register, January 18th, 2017:
Numbers bust the myth: There’s no great exodus from California

Leaving California? After slowing, the trend intensifiesBy JOEL KOTKIN and WENDELL COX |
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2017 at 5:34 am | UPDATED: April 24, 2017 at 11:58 am

Given its iconic hold on the American imagination, the idea that more Americans are leaving California than coming breaches our own sense of uniqueness and promise. Yet, even as the economy has recovered, notably in the Bay Area and in pockets along the coast, the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that domestic migrants continue to leave the state more rapidly than they enter it.

[...]

BACK TO MOUNTING OUTMIGRATION

The San Francisco Bay Area lost more than 600,000 net domestic migrants between 2000 and 2009 before experiencing a five-year respite. Now, sadly, the story seems to be changing again. Housing prices, first in the Bay Area and later in other metropolitan areas, have surged mightily, and are now as high as over nine times household incomes. In 2016, some 26,000 more people left the Bay Area than arrived. San Francisco net migration went from a high of 16,000 positive in 2013 to 12,000 negative three years later.

Similar patterns have occurred across the state. Between 2010 and 2015, California had cut its average annual migration losses annually from 160,000 to 50,000, but that number surged last year to nearly 110,000. Losses in the Los Angeles-Orange County area have gone from 42,000 in 2011 to 88,000 this year. San Diego, where domestic migration turned positive in 2011 and 2012, is now losing around 8,000 net migrants annually.

Leaving California? After slowing, the trend intensifies

 

[Markle]

Not true at all.

Actually, it is true.

Please take note as to what has happened in France since their huge influx of refugees.

 

[The Derp]

We have a for-profit health care system that makes all these innovations possible.

Health care, not health insurance. For profit health insurance isn't what makes innovation possible. You are conflating the two things together when you shouldn't. Health insurance does not lead to any innovation. Not even when it comes to innovation in administration (since many insurers use Medicare as the template when devising their own processes). All health insurance does is administer payment to providers. It has nothing to do with how health care is delivered or innovated.

You say you're a professional in this world, yet you don't seem to grasp the basic role insurance plays in your health care. Which makes me think you're bullshitting everyone when you say you have experience in health care.

Now try hard, please tell us how many more life-saving drugs, life-extending drugs, new technology and procedures developed by your single payer countries than the United States.

First of all, insurance companies have nothing to do when it comes to innovation for those things because insurance companies only administer payment for those procedures. All single payer does is eliminate for-profit health insurance, not for-profit medicine. You can still have for-profit health care in a single payer system. In fact, that's a true free-market approach since providers have to compete for your care, rather than an insurer competing for customers. That's how you improve outcomes and why all those single payer nations routinely beat us in nearly every single health metric there is including life expectancy, infant mortality, and cost per patient.

If you don't think they have anything to do with new developments, you are a fool. Who pays those drug companies, companies that develop and produce the technology used every day?

You are under the mistaken belief that drug companies actually do research. They don't. Most health research and development in this country is funded by the government. The National Institutes for Health is the #1 funder of research and development. Drug companies spend more on marketing and advertising than they do on research & development by a long shot.

From the Washington Post, February 11th, 2015:

IF health insurance companies have nothing to do with health care delivery, how does it get paid?

How health care is paid is not a consequence of how it's delivered. Any entity can do that administration. Prior to 2003, Medicare did that administration just fine.

 

[The Derp]

Leaving California? After slowing, the trend intensifies

So out of a state of 38 million people, you think 110,000 is a trend? It's less than 1% of CA's total population (0.3%). And it's not because of taxes, as your cut-and-paste said, it's because of home prices. Surging home prices are a bad thing, why?

And is that even net migration? You link doesn't say. It just says the number who left, but not the number who came. So why'd you leave that out?