Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (90% confidence)
Every major cross-country data source — CMS national health expenditure data, OECD comparisons, and World Bank figures — consistently places the U.S. first in per-capita healthcare spending, and by a wide margin: at least 40% more per person than the next highest-spending country. The one qualification worth noting is that 'costs' is slightly imprecise as a word — per-capita spending is what the data directly measures, and that's not identical to every possible meaning of 'costs' (e.g. prices p…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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