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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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Message to Congress: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 12 2010
Thank God for forsaking Washington D.C.  If our nation’s capital were blessed with the summertime climate of San Diego, we might never get Congress to go home. But such is the benevolence of God and the foresight of George Washington that the country’s seat of government is built upon a humid swamp that becomes nigh uninhabitable come summer.  The dividend that results is the August recess, congressional members’ annual flight from Washington to the districts they ostensibly represent.
 
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— Issues & Insights Editorial Board
 
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