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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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Early Release: The State of the Union
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, January 21 2010
President Barack Obama’s Address before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union
January 27, 2010 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, my fellow Americans: One year has passed since my inaugural address to the nation.  It was a great day.  Bono was there, which was really cool.  The Boss traveled down from New Jersey.  Even the best and the brightest from Hollywood showed up and applauded endlessly during my soaring rhetoric and inspired melodies.  One day when historians look back, they’ll…
 
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Terror and Honesty
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President Obama’s Health Care Snake Oil
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Most of us know someone who, as is said, will lie about what he or she had for breakfast.  For those…
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It appears that the worst of our recent economic downturn may be behind us.  Unfortunately, the…
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