Private health insurance involves too many death panels, too little choice, too much cost, and too few people covered. Private pharmaceutical companies which parasitize publicly-funded research to gouge Americans on essential drugs are prima facie public bads. Same thing for private for-profit and ‘non-profit’ hospitals that mark-up services like ‘gave an ice pack and had the patient sit in the waiting area’ by hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Nationalize the health care system now!