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Sanders repeats claim that the US spends twice as much on health care than any other countrySen. Bernie Sanders repeated a claim he’s often made on the amount of money the US spends on health care.
"We are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the Canadians or any other major country on Earth," Sanders said.Sanders is right about Canada. While there's no universal definition of"major country,” so there's some subjectivity here, it's not true that the US spends twice as much per capita on health care as every other country in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, a group of 36 wealthy countries around the world.
At $10,586 per capita in 2018, the US did spend more than twice as much as Canada and more than twice as much as the in 2018 -- but Switzerland , Norway and Germany all were substantially above half the US level; Sweden , Austria and Denmark were also above half, though more slightly. Sanders has been repeating this same exaggeration since at least 2009, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
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