In fact, every other liberal democracy has addressed them in ways that provide universal coverage for less and often much less money per capita than the American system.
This is probably what he meant, but the key point is that we spend more per capita in total than everyone else, and we also spend more per capita in public money than many without the associated universal access that sane countries have. Even before Obamacare, we had a lot of government expenditures on health care, just very expensive government expenditures on health care.