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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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Obama’s Big Fat Greek Bailout
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 29 2010
Amusing entertainment news this week comes out of Britain, where Deadline London reports an upcoming Barack Obama miniseries based upon journalist Richard Wolffe’s book, The Making of a President.  Here’s an idea for a better title:  Obama’s Big Fat Greek Bailout.  After all, Obama’s enormous and unsustainable entitlement agenda perilously tracks Greece’s, and the future consequences will be the same unless someone interrupts his bad sequel.  That British entertainment news dovetails with less humorous news elsewhere in Europe this week, as…
 
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"A Democratic National Committee meeting on Tuesday devolved into an anti-Israel slugfest, leading its chairman, Ken Martin, to pull a resolution many party members believed was not harsh enough on the Jewish state. Instead, Martin invited the anti-Israel members to join a committee to reevaluate the party's position on Israel.The Martin-backed resolution, which the DNC initially approved, called…[more]
 
 
— Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
 
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Apropos of Labor Day, do you believe that corporate CEOs are right to require employees to be in the office for a specified number of weekly days, in the interests of corporate direction, efficiency and output?