America’s First Trillion Dollar Bureaucracy by Chris Edwards, Foundation For Economic Education
And the Winner Is…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is America’s first 1 trillion dollar bureaucracy. HHS will spend $1.1 trillion in 2016, which is one $1 million repeated one million times.
You are paying for it, so you might want to know that:
- The department spends more than $8,800 a year for every household in the United States.
- It runs 528 different subsidy programs for state and local governments, businesses, and individuals.
- The largest HHS subsidy program is Medicare at $589 billion in 2016, followed by Medicaid at $367 billion.
- HHS has 73,000 employees.
- Real, or inflation-adjusted, HHS spending has exploded ten-fold since 1970, as shown in the...
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