* Medicare and Medicaid spend 26.9 cents for every dollar of benefits versus 16.2 cents for private insurance.<br /><br />* Thus government spends 66 percent more than the private sector per dollar of benefits paid. <br /><br />Source: Mark Litow and the Technical Committee of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, "Rhetoric vs. Reality: Comparing Public and Private Health Care Administrative Costs," March 1994, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, 112 S. West Street, 4th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314, (703) 836-6200.