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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 Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
By CFIF Staff
Wednesday, March 03 2010
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has a Charles Rangel problem.  All Democrats in the House have a Charles Rangel problem.  President Obama has a Charles Rangel problem. Their Charles Rangel problem is ethics and corruption, government ethics and corruption, Democratic ethics and corruption. Mr. Rangel, who represents New York’s 15th District, has been in the House since 1971, the senior member of the New York delegation.  More important, since 2007, he has been Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (ubiquitously referred to as powerful) –…
 
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