I don't know if I would agree there. Insurance (by a non-government entity) is a good thing. Can everyone afford to break a leg and spend $5300 for a cast?? Or get cancer and spend a half-million bucks?
But is it really "private insurance" if public tax money is spent to subsidize it?
Then insure yourself against having a serious illness or a major hospital bill. But there is a world of difference between insuring yourself for the rare major hospital bill and having every little visit to your doctor covered by that same plan. Catastrophic health insurance is OK. Insuring ever doctor visit is a bad idea that just adds layers and layers of bureaucracy and mountains of paperwork that just runs the cost of health into the stratosphere.