Okay, so on the catastrophic-only front: what about chronic issues, like diabetes, or depression, etc? Insurance pays for the initial crisis - but ongoing trea

Okay, so on the catastrophic-only front: what about chronic issues, like diabetes, or depression, etc? Insurance pays for the initial crisis - but ongoing treatment comes solely out-of-pocket? Nobody can afford that. Especially with how drug prices have escalated. And in some of these chronic conditions, the end-stages become very costly. Insurance absorbs the early costs of regular care, which PREVENTS both chronic conditions, and these costly end-stages. (This is widely-accepted science, not insurance company marketing). So this catastrophic-only model simply is not tenable, will not work. Unless either these treatment prices come way, way, down. OR: we address the real source of the problem, which is that incomes have not come up to meet these niche costs which have inflated greatly, yet somehow avoided being measured and added to overall inflation statistics. ("hedonic adjustments", anyone?) Trump actually campaigned on lowering drug prices. Yet for all we've sacrificed to endure a Trump presidency, they've done absolutely nothing to address this problem. And they won't. I assure you. Therefore - the shitty-compromise solution must be: government pays. Because they're too cowardly to fix the problem any other way. Government pays until government can't. So they just borrow more. Not even "plain speaking" Trump has the balls to work these two problems. (Drug prices, and income stasis).