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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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3 Things to Like About 2017
By Veronique de Rugy
Sunday, December 31 2017
This time of year, we pause to take stock of what happened in the year that has passed. Although there were plenty of policy developments to dislike in 2017, in the spirit of the holidays, I will stick to my three favorites. Forget, for now, about immigration policy, free trade setbacks, the busting of the budget caps and the continuation of the war on drugs and the pain it causes its victims. 2017 may or may not have been a net positive; that's for each of you to decide. First, President Donald Trump just signed a historic reduction in the corporate income tax rate, from 35 percent —…
 
Beware: Obamacare Penalty Could Come Back
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Honoring 2017's Bulldogs
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Democrats Are Fooling Themselves About Tax Reform's Unpopularity
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Google: "Do As We Say, Not As We Do"
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CFIF Christmas Quiz
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To Deregulate America, Dump DC Bureaucrats
Flanked by a towering 185,000 pages representing the federal regulatory code now and a short pile of…
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Time for Trump Makeover of Lib NPR and PBS
At the close of 2017, no less than seven prominent male hosts and editors of influential government-sponsored…
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Political Journalists Have Themselves to Blame for Sinking Credibility
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"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]
 
 
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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?