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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, GOP to Tell the Vulgar Truth about Joe Biden
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, May 23 2012
Politico reports that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee are tracking and publicizing every verbal gaffe Vice President Joe Biden makes.  If you know anything about the loquacious and unpredictable Veep, this is probably the biggest contribution to widespread job creation Biden has made in his entire career.
 
The purpose of the Republicans’ strategy is to blow a hole through the myth that Biden somehow represents blue collar workers even though he’s a lifelong politician who routinely supports taxes and regulations…
 
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An announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration to ease restrictions on using unmanned drone aircraft…
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Why We Should Hate “Hate Crimes”
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Marco Rubio, Rand Paul Point to Tension in GOP’s Foreign Policy Future
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