Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (90% confidence)
Multiple authoritative primary sources — OECD Health at a Glance 2025, GAO, Commonwealth Fund, and WHO — confirm the U.S. leads all measured countries in per-capita health spending ($14,885 USD PPP in 2024) and as a share of GDP (17.2%), making it the highest spender among all OECD nations and all high-income countries with available data. The minor qualification is that the comparison is best documented across OECD and high-income countries; a small number of non-OECD nations are not included…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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