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Private insurance is a kind of 'socialised' medicine. It's just controlled by private interests instead of people who supposedly represent the public as civil servants or elected officials. (Not that these are the only options -- i can imagine other arrangements for distribution & control) Private insurance is socialised through higher prices for goods rather than through taxes, but in either case, the society as a whole pays for it in the end. We also pay for health care on the cheap through lower productivity. Sick or dead workers are not good workers. There are different winners and losers under different arrangements, and in the US sorting that out is a major part of today's political struggle.
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