Healthcare ??????

With the upcoming election we are bombarded with concern over healthcare from all our candidates ranging from free medical for all to free medical for illegals. Every candidate has some form of low cost government run medical care for some group of citizenry.
I have yet to hear anyone mention anything about the cost, except insurance costs. Insurance costs are a direct result of the charges by the hospitals, doctors, drugs, and countless other services and devices.
My own experience and observation has convinced me that this is the source of 95% of the problem related to healthcare. My last two visits to the emergency room were a waste of my time and the last was extremely detrimental to my health by a procedure that advanced my kidney failure considerably.
I have not been able to determine the total cost of those visits due to Medicare method of payments. They do not provide the patient with any cost information that I am aware of, however, my supplemental insurance provides limited cost of some of the charges. That was mind blowing information to me to say the least. I was also billed $1250 for three doctors who visited my room for five minutes each. This was not covered by Medicate or Insurance.
The convoluted procedure for the dispensing of prescription drugs is beyond my ability to provide any description.
In my city there has been a proliferation of new hospitals, hospital expansions, emergency rooms, urgent care facilities, and doctor offices. We now have these facilities advertising on television, radio, and direct mail. This increase tells me that there is big money to be made in healthcare and it is being exploited very quickly.
I believe that government involvement in the past few years have brought on this problem and the only solution would be to bring back competition.
That is unlikely due to the lobbying of Congress by those benefiting from this boom in easy money.