Fact-check: “The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world”
Verdict: Mostly True (82% confidence)
Multiple primary international datasets — including WHO's Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED, updated December 2025) and World Bank WDI data sourced from the same — document U.S. per-capita health expenditure at approximately $13,473 (2023, current USD), which is the highest recorded among all large and high-income economies and confirmed as highest among OECD members. The claim requires a minor qualification: across all 195 countries and territories in the WHO dataset, very small jurisdi…
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