In Ashford’s own words: “We need realistic solutions. We don’t need pie-in-the-sky ideas. We need things we can actually take action on.”

Harrison: A public option with choices

Basics: Harrison wants more competition to push private insurers to cover more services for less money. She wants a public option added to the Obamacare exchanges.

She also wants to bring together stakeholders — people with and without insurance, medical providers, insurance company workers, union leaders, small-business owners and corporate executives — to examine what needs to be fixed. She said she doesn’t pretend to have all the answers.

But she wants to give union workers the chance to hold onto benefits they’ve earned. And the subsidies need to be large enough to make buying health insurance on the exchanges affordable for people like her, who own or work for a small business. (Harrison is the owner and daughter of the founder of Big Mama’s Kitchen in North Omaha.)

She also wants to help people of color and people without insurance get medical treatment on par with others.