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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.
Prescription drug spending is the third most expensive cost in our health care system. And spending seems to grow larger every year. Just last year, the average American got 12 prescriptions a year, as compared with 1992, when Americans got an average of seven prescriptions. In a decade and a half, the use of prescription medication went up 71 percent. This has added about $180 billion to our medical spending. While there are more medicines on the market today than in 1992, researchers estimate that around 20 percent of the $180 billion increase has absolutely nothing to do with the number of medications available, or increases in the cost of that medication.