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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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ObamaCare: The Public Will Be Damned Only if We Allow it
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, March 11 2010
Sometimes a writer captures, with relatively few words, an understanding that humbles those of us who merely try. Such is the case with Michael Gerson, writing of ObamaCare in The Washington Post:  “Whatever the legislative fate of health reform – now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats – the reformers have failed in their argument.  Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president’s public standing…
 
President Bush Inherited His Share of “Messes,” Too
Imagine President George W. Bush slurring his predecessor Bill Clinton in the following manner during…
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Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, it was amidst an atmosphere of generalized transcendence. …
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SEIU’s Andy Stern: A Budget Vulture Feasting on the Public’s Nest Eggs
With annual federal budget deficits projected to top $1.6 trillion for the foreseeable future, President…
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The Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has a Charles Rangel problem.  All Democrats…
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Al Gore Emerges from Hiding, Calls Us a “Criminal Generation”
Somehow, it seems poetically just that Al Gore finally emerged from his snow-covered bunker just one…
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The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one…
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Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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“From Keynesian to Ponzian” – Obama’s Stimulus One Year Later
“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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"Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running 'possibly illegal' anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country's public schools.CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, announced late last month its Philadelphia office is partnering with K-12 schools across Pennsylvania…[more]
 
 
— Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
 
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