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Everyone working for a living optimizes their work towards making more money. That doesn't change for people funded with public money. It's pretty widely accepted that the people in charge of public funding (politicians) sometimes act outside of the publics interest for self-gain.

I make no claim as to which achieves better results for the public because it's such a complicated problem, but I think it's rather naive to just assume publicly funded incentives are more aligned with social health than private incentives.