Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (90% confidence)
OECD Health at a Glance 2025 and the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database both document the U.S. spending more per person on health than any other country with available data — $14,880–$14,885 per capita in 2024, nearly double Switzerland (the next highest at ~$9,963) and 2.5x the OECD average. The minor qualification is that the strongest primary-source confirmation covers OECD members and WHO-reporting nations; no authoritative source was located showing any non-OECD country exceeding U.S.…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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