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BY Valerie Paris, OECD February 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM EDT. Photo by Flickr user Images_of_Money. The United States spends almost $1,000 per person per year on pharmaceuticals. Thatâs around 40 percent more than the next highest spender, Canada, and more than twice as much as than countries like France and Germany spend.ut if Americans take more pharmaceuticals, they also pay more for them. Prices in the U.S. for brand-name patented drugs are 50 to 60 percent higher than in France and twice as high as in the United Kingdom or Australia.
In 2010, a systematic review of studies that looked at the cost of drug development was published in Health Policy. The review found 13 articles, with estimates ranging from $161 million to $1.8 billion (in 2009 dollars). Obviously, methodology matters.hen a drug company invests in research and development, it is tying up money that could otherwise be invested elsewhere. In this announcement, the Tufts Center says that $1.2 billion of the $2.6 billion is time costs.