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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 2012: Governing Without Congress
By Troy Senik
Thursday, January 05 2012
2011 was Barack Obama’s year of living dangerously. Whether it was the debt ceiling showdown, the prospect of closing the federal government or the push for a macroeconomically meaningless payroll tax cut, the president’s standard operating procedure was to wait until the eleventh hour, then hope that the resultant chaos in Congress would be sufficient to get the legislative branch to bend to his will.
 
If a contempt for Congress was the hallmark of Obama’s lawmaking strategy in 2011, however, the president looks to be taking it one step further in 2012: ignoring…
 
Obama’s Tyrannical Tendencies
For years now I’ve warned that Barack Obama gives evidence of disturbingly authoritarian tendencies.…
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2011: The Year in Review
2012 is going to be a year dominated by politics. It will begin with the Iowa caucuses only a few days…
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Paul Ryan’s New Medicare Reform Is Pro-Market
Like night following day, another Paul Ryan reform proposal is igniting another round of teeth-gnashing…
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Eric Holder Calls Out a Nation of Racists
For Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, to play the race card is about as surprising as for Charlie Sheen…
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Myth Versus Fact: Debunking Dishonest and Inaccurate Claims Against Congressional Legislation to Stop Online Piracy
Here’s something on which reasonable people agree:  Internet piracy by foreign rogue websites…
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Obama’s Letter to Santa
The White House
Office of the President

December 14, 2011

Dear Mr.…
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GOP Fails a Gut-Czech
When Republican senators won’t even support one of their own senior members in blocking an Obama…
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Holder’s Fast and Furious Sideshow Helps Obama Keep Liberals From Bolting
Every circus needs a clown.  With President Barack Obama’s campaign machine getting ready…
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17 Days in Hawaii? Ostensible Class Warrior Barack Obama Is Himself "The 1%”
So in which tropical paradise are you spending 17 days this holiday season?  What’s that…
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Keystone Pipeline Delay Compounds America’s Energy Decline
The core economic fallacy of modern liberalism is the belief that government is superior to the private…
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Notable Quote   
 
"It is either true or false that Governor Cook misrepresented her primary residence status on one or more mortgage applications. The evidence put forth publicly by @pulte strongly suggests that she lied on one or more mortgage applications, in other words, mortgage fraud.It should be straightforward for Governor Cook to disprove the alleged fraud and it shouldn't require a team of lawyers and litigation…[more]
 
 
— Bill Ackman, CEO Pershing Square
 
Liberty Poll   

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?