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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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The Menace Abroad: Foreign Policy Threats to Watch in 2011
By Troy Senik
Wednesday, January 12 2011
As 2010 recedes into memory and 2011 begins to take center stage, America continues a long and bizarre interregnum in our foreign policy posture. Ever since the war in Iraq began winding down and the economy began cracking up during the 2008 election cycle, we have become a nation whose political focus is concentrated almost exclusively stateside.
 
Although American military efforts continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, a sampling of any evening news broadcast over the past two years would scarcely bear witness to that fact. As issues like unemployment and health care have captivated…
 
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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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Alabama Delivers A Lame Duck Session To Be Proud Of
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You can tell a lot about someone based on the character of her enemies.  For conservatives, the…
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The First Act of the Obama Presidency Comes to an End
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The Congress shall have Power … To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several…
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A Conservative Christmas List
Dear President Obama,
 
Age disabuses us of many of the sweetest fables of our childhood.…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Billy Joel says 'it's always been a matter of trust.' That could not be more relevant today when it comes to money. Trust is the intangible factor that allows money to move and economies to succeed. When it erodes, as it did in 2008, balance sheets can melt before our very eyes.So why are we now trying to create a financial system[ ] with less trust?The growth of digital assets, the passage of the…[more]
 
 
— Thomas P. Vartanian, Executive Director of the Financial Technology and Cybersecurity Center
 
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