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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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10 Things to Hate About the State of the Union
By Troy Senik
Friday, January 29 2010
If there is a more painful exercise in American political life than the State of the Union address, it’s a well-kept secret.  Every year, millions of Americans tune in to the President’s annual remarks to a joint session of Congress either out of an obstinate sense of civic obligation or a perilous shortage of Ambien.  And every year, regardless of party, the President delivers the executive branch’s wish list in dutiful, if listless, prose while his congressional partisans see how quickly they can render the standing ovation meaningless.
 
To break…
 
Bloomberg Joins All Who Just Say No to New York City Terrorist Trials
As presidential crises go, the opposition of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to a presidential decision…
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Approaching a Global Warming Agenda Stop Sign, Obama Decides to Floor It
Any toddler who touches a hot stovetop quickly internalizes the necessary lesson and becomes unlikely…
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Says No to Obama Education Department’s “Race to the Top” Initiative
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Early Release: The State of the Union
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Can We Please Stop Labeling Liberals “Elite?”
In a survey released October 14, 2009 – just three months ago – the liberal-leaning Pew Research…
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Brown Victory in Massachusetts Kills ObamaCare Either Way
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Massachusetts Special U.S. Senate Election Exit Poll
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The Obama Administration Plays the Role of "Sybil"
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Terror and Honesty
From the second that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano assured Americans that “the…
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Martha Coakley: Candidate-at-Large
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Notable Quote   
 
"A Democratic National Committee meeting on Tuesday devolved into an anti-Israel slugfest, leading its chairman, Ken Martin, to pull a resolution many party members believed was not harsh enough on the Jewish state. Instead, Martin invited the anti-Israel members to join a committee to reevaluate the party's position on Israel.The Martin-backed resolution, which the DNC initially approved, called…[more]
 
 
— Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
 
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?