Under-Reporting Government Costs of Services

When politicians tell you how much cheaper it is for a government to offer you health insurance or other services, they intentionally leave out some important facts. These omissions would get private companies sued to Kingdom Come and their officers thrown into jail.
The government numbers do not usually tell you which of the government overhead or operating costs are being covered by others, and not by the reporting agency. So you never get strict comparisons between private company and government operations. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)