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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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Pax Republicana: GOP Now Dominates the American Political Landscape
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 06 2014
In 2010, Barack Obama labeled his election setback a "shellacking."  This week, he petulantly avoided offering a description of what happened when asked by reporters.  Perhaps we can help.  How about a bright red tattoo of the word "Rejected" on his forehead?  His apologists naturally struggled to dismiss the electorate's verdict as "anti-incumbent" or even "progressive" because voters in some states approved minimum wage propositions.  But those rationalizations are transparently false.  Almost every single incumbent Republican…
 
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"It is either true or false that Governor Cook misrepresented her primary residence status on one or more mortgage applications. The evidence put forth publicly by @pulte strongly suggests that she lied on one or more mortgage applications, in other words, mortgage fraud.It should be straightforward for Governor Cook to disprove the alleged fraud and it shouldn't require a team of lawyers and litigation…[more]
 
 
— Bill Ackman, CEO Pershing Square
 
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