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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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10 Things You Won’t Hear in Obama’s State of the Union
By Troy Senik
Thursday, January 20 2011
On Tuesday, President Obama makes the long journey to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for his annual State of the Union address. With the President trying to find his political footing after a sharp rejection in the midterm elections, economic worries still on the nation’s mind and the specter of the 2012 presidential election lingering in the distance, the evening will present a sterling opportunity for the Commander-in-Chief to turn over a new leaf.
 
With Washington atwitter over what he will say, inside sources in the White House speechwriting office have begun…
 
Big Labor, Obama Administration Shift Strategies to Impose Their Agenda
Big Labor’s expansionist agenda has failed miserably in Congress and the court of public opinion. …
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Where’s the Border Fence?
On the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced…
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Can’t Blame Sarah Palin? Just “Blame the Guns”
The campaign to scapegoat Sarah Palin for Saturday’s murders in Tucson collapsed quicker than Michael…
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California Redevelopment Agencies on Budget Chopping Block
California Governor Jerry Brown’s budget cutting proposals are exciting howls from his liberal…
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Chinese-North Korean Axis Heightening Need for U.S. Missile Defense Shield
During his recent trip to Beijing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared that North Korea is no more…
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The Menace Abroad: Foreign Policy Threats to Watch in 2011
As 2010 recedes into memory and 2011 begins to take center stage, America continues a long and bizarre…
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Just the Facts: Liberals Spread Others’ Wealth Around, Conservatives Spread Their Own
“When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”  So lectured aspiring…
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New Midwestern Governors Set Sights on Taming Public Employee Unions
With federal stimulus money drying up and accounting gimmicks exhausted, several cash-strapped states…
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Fifteen Lessons From 2010
In life, there are good years and bad years. Then there are years like 2010, when the countdown to New…
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Technically, the recently concluded session of the Alabama legislature was not a lame duck session. …
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Notable Quote   
 
"A Democratic National Committee meeting on Tuesday devolved into an anti-Israel slugfest, leading its chairman, Ken Martin, to pull a resolution many party members believed was not harsh enough on the Jewish state. Instead, Martin invited the anti-Israel members to join a committee to reevaluate the party's position on Israel.The Martin-backed resolution, which the DNC initially approved, called…[more]
 
 
— Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
 
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Apropos of Labor Day, do you believe that corporate CEOs are right to require employees to be in the office for a specified number of weekly days, in the interests of corporate direction, efficiency and output?