Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar addressed the laws being passed around the country that have rolled back the protections of Roe v. Wade. DemDebate
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Sen. Bernie Sanders has been saying for a full decade that Americans spend twice as much per person on health care as do the people of any other country, thoughin January. And he said it again at the debate on Friday: “We are spending twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.”Again, Sanders is exaggerating.
Switzerland, at $7,317 per capita, and Norway, at $6,187 per capita, were well above half the US level, $10,586 per capita, in 2018, the last year for which international data is available. Germany , Sweden , Austria and Denmark were also above half though more narrowly. The OECD average for 2018 was $3,992 per capita, so Sanders would be correct if he had said the US spends more than twice the average for wealthy countries. But he has been using his incorrect wording since at least 2009, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
It is possible that the health spending numbers were different in 2019 than they were in 2018 and in years prior, but that data is not yet available.
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