“Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere in the world.”
What PolitiFact found
American spending on prescriptions is nearly three times other industrialized countries, but not all countries. Experts say factors like country-specific pricing and confidential discounts can obscure actual prices.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 March 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.