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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…
 
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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   
 
"Speaking from the Oval Office Monday morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gave additional details about how the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was cooking the books on data in order to make the argument crime was 'going down.''When we share the results, it will stun you,' Miller said. 'There are even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents not murders…[more]
 
 
— Katie Pavlich, Townhall.com
 
Liberty Poll   

If national guard support for police action in Washington, D.C., continues its crime reduction success, do you believe big city mayors will increase police crackdowns in their crime-ridden cities, or just continue to bash Trump's ordered intervention?