Edit: Actually I found some OECD stats[4] on that suggest that _public_ spend in the U.S is actually higher than the _public_ spend in Canada/UK/France (though

Edit: Actually I found some OECD stats[4] on that suggest that _public_ spend in the U.S is actually higher than the _public_ spend in Canada/UK/France (though for the latter two they are almost in margin of error territory) so the parent is correct. Original post: No, it's not true. In 2010-2011[1], US had the highest expenditure in the world on health per capita according to WHO and OECD, but those stats are combined public _and_ private expenditure. World Bank stats show Norway & Switzerland as spending more per capita[2] over the same period, but then says that 'data is in current U.S dollars'. The data for these stats is from WHO, so not sure if currency fluctuation or something else is a factor here? According to [3], per capita public healthcare budget for 2011 was $3,768 vs. an overall spend of $9,146, so 41% of the total healthcare spend was public money. In any case, I think all these stats can reliably posit is is that combined public and private spending on healthcare in the U.S per capita is one of the highest, if not the highest. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... 2: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP?order=wbapi_data_value_2012+wbapi_data_value&sort=desc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP?order=wbapi_... 3: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2011USdn_16ds2n#usgs302 http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2011USdn_1... 4: https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Briefing-Note-UNITED-STATES-2014.pdf https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Briefing-Note-UNITED-STATE...