As usual, voters have to choose between ridiculous extremes

I'm not sure that I understand your first question. The right, as opposed to the left?

Business alone doesn't appear to be the solution either.

We're not talking about trading apples for oranges. We talking about something that everyone has to have and being charged and exorbitant price. This is profiteering and price gouging, and if Biden has his way he'll bring back the individual mandate and force everyone to pay. That's not free trade, that's tyranny. At the same time, the healthcare industry - whether you blame the insurance companies, doctors and hospitals or the medical schools - has created conditions in which premiums alone can exceed your mortgage. I don't want to start a conspiracy theory, but it seems tailor made for taking us to single-payer - which I doubt will be any less expensive just less transparent. Sometimes corrective action has to come from outside the industry. I do not want the govt to be my healthcare provider, I want the govt to step in, set the terms that the companies must meet, and let them figure how to do it.

Conservatives protect health care from liberal extremes. Health care not a right, but 100% of Americans + illegals have access to health care already.

Left or right, our government has failed in its responsibility to supervise and oversee. This has resulted in out of control costs for healthcare, which Congress is either unwilling or incapable of addressing. Healthcare costs are full of outrageous profiteering, and the same coverage can vary widely in cost.

I don't want to see government run healthcare. I want government to regulate healthcare such that those who offer the best coverage at the best cost pay little in regulatory fines, whereas the rest end up selling band-aids on the corner of some third world country.

Free market works. The sole problem with health care COSTS is insurance companies. Just like our taxes when you remove the consumer from the payment everything goes unnoticed. Health "insurance" is the ONLY insurance you buy expecting to use. It's not insurance, it's a "discount plan".

Government needs to get more out of the way than in the way. Always. When Obamacare obamantion was introduced people were discussing the REAL issues with health insurance and what needed to be fixed. Those concerns were dismissed so we could get more government intrusion.

I don't disagree. Obamascam only added more people to an already broken system. I do not pretend to know what the best solution is. I do know that current conditions are intolerably unaffordable without any legitimate justification. Somehow some change must occur that creates healthcare costs that are more proportional to income -- but that does mean that I want the government to overstep.

If they'd like to double my income, I won't object ;) Thanks for commenting!

I don't expect the people to be subservient to the government. (In fact, I'm quite against this). I don't think the people to be subject to the whims of corporations without recourse either. It is within the purview of the government to regulate. In my opinion, the government - defined as the people or their representatives - has allowed the healthcare industry to become modern day robber barons.

I not blaming Kelloggs or Home Depot. When the product is healthcare, a product everyone needs and cannot do without, then people are subject to whatever decisions the corporations make. Healthcare is unaffordable, and it doesn't matter which company or plan you have. Switching plans - and some of us are limited in our ability to do that - doesn't make a noticeable difference. If your employer provides a number of plans, your choice is limited to those plans and the difference is generally measured in tens of dollars. Competition has failed to produce affordable coverage. So what's your solution?