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Image of the Day: Drug Prices Are CHEAPER in the U.S. Than Other Developed Nations

In our latest Liberty Update, CFIF highlights the debut of the "Most Favored Patient" initiative, which offers the optimal blueprint going forward for lower drug costs, greater access and better healthcare.

Well, the policy heavyweights behind Most Favored Patient come from the group at Unleash Prosperity, including Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore, Phil Kerpen, and Thomas Philipson.  And in addition to their new work at Most Favored Patient, they've unveiled a new commentary explaining how drug prices in the U.S. are actually cheaper than in other developed nations with which we're often unfairly compared:

It IS true that Americans pay more for new drugs under patent. That, of course, is because American pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars inventing the major breakthrough…[more]

August 20, 2025 • 08:24 PM

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The Infomercial President
By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 24 2013
Government interventions in the private sector are inevitably pockmarked by unintended consequences. Given both the scale and scope of ObamaCare, it is thus unsurprising that the program’s rollout has been met with a bevy of unforeseen shortcomings. The worst one of all: the President of the United States has been transformed into an infomercial hack. On October 1, the day that healthcare.gov launched, Barack Obama, deploying the false confidence of a carnival barker, stepped into the Rose Garden and declared that the federal government’s new online marketplace would make shopping…
 
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"A group of independent nuclear proliferation experts assessed that Iran no longer has a pathway to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, confirming a major setback for the Islamic Republic following the joint U.S.-Israeli action to eliminate its nuclear program earlier this year.The independent analysis of the evidence gathered by the International Atomic Energy Agency since the attack confirms what…[more]
 
 
— Steven Richards, Just the News
 
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