The difference in drug spending between countries amounts to a small fraction of overall healthcare spending. $1200 a year in the US versus $900 in Switzerland or $800 in Germany, Canada, and Japan.
It's incidental what the numbers are. Given how effed the US system is, I would fully expect that $1200 being spent on the entirely wrong things, like a few super expensive drugs, and a lot of antibiotics which should have been dirt cheap getting a ridiculous markup, or on Oxycontin.
