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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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CFIF Submits Formal Comment on NIST Proposed Rule Regarding Bayh-Dole Act of 1980
By CFIF Staff
Monday, April 12 2021
Last week, the Center for Indvidiual Freedom (CFIF) submitted a formal Comment with the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on its Proposed Rule regarding the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which granted universities, nonprofit organizations and small business the right to patent and license inventions funded partly by federal funding.  The Economist magazine called the Bayh-Dole Act "Possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half century," and rightfully so.  It unleashed…
 
Moving the MLB All-Star Game to Denver Makes Zero Sense
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Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia's largest employer.…
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Biden's FDR Delusion
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No to DC Statehood
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Targeting Short-Selling Is Short-Sighted
As we pass the otherwise grim one-year coronavirus pandemic milestone, perhaps the most remarkable bright…
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"Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard informed her office Wednesday of a 40% reduction in personnel and the wholesale closure of centers she found had politicized intelligence as part of a sweeping overhaul of the top spy office.Months of audits by Gabbard's handpicked team of intelligence officials has culminated in 'ODNI 2.0,' as the overhaul project has been deemed, the first in…[more]
 
 
— Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation
 
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