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.
Related fact-checks
- Donald Trump Jr accepted a gift from a Russian oligearch — True
- European Union plans 200 million Euro investment in Greenland as a response to Trump's posturing — Mostly True
- Approximately 45% of the current Canadian population is made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants — Mostly True
- Recent job numbers increased faster than had been expected and are ahead of most analysts expectations — Partly True
- Medicare for all would cost trillions a year that Americans would pay through higher income taxes — Partly True