U.S. drug costs can be more than double those in Europe

Some of the most-used drugs in the U.S. are thousands of dollars more expensive in this country than they are in other countries, according to Vox.

For example, American patients using the arthritis drug Humira spent nearly triple what those in Switzerland paid for the drug and nearly double what patients in the U.K. and Spain paid in a year.

The pattern continues for other drugs, healthcare treatments, tests and even hospital stays, when comparing costs in the U.S. to those in Western Europe and Australia. It can cost almost $11,000 to have a baby in the U.S., but only about $2,000 in Spain.

Check out the charts at Vox to see the differences in costs in the U.S. and elsewhere.