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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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What to Hope for If GOP Controls Congress
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, September 18 2014
Unless voters unexpectedly send Republican super-majorities to both chambers of Congress this November, radical policy change isn’t coming to Washington, D.C., during President Obama’s last two years in office. But that doesn’t mean there’s no hope for improvement. A unified, Republican-led Senate and House of Representatives can do a lot to move the policy agenda in a more conservative direction.  The most obvious difference will be legislative action on ObamaCare. To date, the House has passed more than 50 bills that would repeal or reform part or all of the controversial…
 
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