Public or Private Healthcare What kind of healthcare would you rather have a public run system or a private system. Having a public run system depends on everybody paying into the government and holding elected officials accountable if corruption does happen. The positive side to having the government on your side is you won't be denied coverage and your costs are going to be low. Now the private system on the other hand is all about profits, agents get paid really good money to deny coverage. A lot of the companies are not held accountable because its business, and to them profits come first. The American people can't elect the CEO of a health insurance company so how are we going to hold those people accountable.