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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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Reckless, Excessive Obama Warns Reckless and Excessive Behavior Won’t Be Tolerated
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 17 2009
In a speech setting new lows in hypocrisy this week, a sanctimonious Barack Obama admonished an audience of business leaders in New York that he will not tolerate “reckless behavior” or “unchecked excess.”  It was all a bit like Timothy Geithner or Congressman Charlie Rangel telling an audience that they won’t tolerate tax evasion.  Obama, in demanding yet another sweeping government overhaul of yet another private industry that he seeks to commandeer, proceeded to propose the creation of still another new bungling federal agency to bureaucratize financial…
 
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Norman Borlaug – Losing a Legend
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Remembering Patriot Day
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This “New” ObamaCare Game Is for Suckers, Just Like the Old One
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— Miranda Devine, New York Post
 
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