Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (88% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — OECD Health at a Glance 2025, CMS National Health Expenditure Accounts, and WHO Global Health Expenditure Database (via World Bank) — all document that the U.S. spends more on healthcare per capita and as a share of GDP than any other country in the OECD, which covers the world's wealthiest nations. The qualification keeping this from 'True' is that the OECD does not cover every country on earth, and the WHO GHED (which does cover 190+ countries) was not d…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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