Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (90% confidence)
Multiple authoritative sources — OECD Health at a Glance 2025, CMS National Health Expenditure Accounts, the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, and the Commonwealth Fund — all document that the U.S. spends more on healthcare per person and as a share of GDP than any other country in the OECD, which covers all major high-income nations. The OECD's 2024 data put U.S. per-capita health spending at $14,885, 2.5 times the OECD average, and the highest share of GDP (over 17%) of any OECD member. The…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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