Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (88% confidence)
The U.S. clearly ranks first among OECD countries on per-capita health spending ($14,885 in 2024, per OECD Health at a Glance 2025) and on health spending as a share of GDP (17.2%), and WHO global data covering 195 countries consistently places the U.S. at or near the top globally as well. The 'world' framing is slightly stronger than what the OECD-only data strictly proves, but WHO global expenditure data and World Bank series corroborate that no country exceeds the U.S. on these metrics acros…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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