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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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Romney, Ryan Race Against Arithmetic
By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, August 23 2012
Conservatives should not be overconfident: The Romney-Ryan ticket still faces a daunting task. There are several ways to analyze and predict election results, with the best ways combining almost equal degrees of art and arithmetic. Before Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, I had run my more artistic/impressionistic model in two ways and, amazingly, both came out with a 269-269 tie in electoral votes. Without re-running my mental model state by state, I nonetheless would be inclined now to give the Republicans a slight edge. Unfortunately for them, though, when I run the arithmetic…
 
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"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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