Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (90% confidence)
Multiple authoritative sources — including OECD Health at a Glance 2025 and CMS National Health Expenditure data — confirm the U.S. spends more per capita on healthcare than any other OECD country, at $14,885 per person (2.5x the OECD average of $5,967) and 17.2% of GDP. The claim is substantially accurate on the two standard metrics (per-capita spending and share of GDP), though it technically covers only OECD comparisons rather than every country on earth, and 'costs' conflates spending with…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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