America's First Trillion Dollar Bureaucracy

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,…