A Painful Pill to Swallow: U.S. vs. International ...

the United States. The greatest disparity was with Japan, where the average drug price was only 15 percent that of the U.S., meaning that the U.S. on average spends seven times what Japan pays for the same drugs. Denmark represented the closest average price, where average drug prices were 39.1 percent of the average U.S. drug price. ................
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