The rule in statism is that everything not prohibited is subsidized. Or, worse yet, mandated. And that has been recent American practice.
You can see it in the nine charts The Epoch Times published Friday.
In 2020 Americans filled 6.4 billion prescriptions, about 19 per person.
By 2023, Americans were consuming more than 210 billion daily doses of medication annually. That’s more than 600 pills, shots, drops, IVs, creams, mists, or suppositories for every person in the country.
“9 Things to Know About Big Pharma, in Charts,” The Epoch Times (July 18, 2025).
And all these drugs have political consequences:
And consequences on federal government spending:
Meanwhile, the federal government’s hand in the creation of SARS-Cov-2 — the coronavirus that induced the pandemic and the panic — is clearer than ever, and the clarity is all about America’s most notorious bureaucrat, Anthony Fauci:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday requesting that the Department of Justice investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci for possible criminal prosecution regarding Fauci’s congressional testimony in May 2021 about gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“Rand Paul ‘re-refers’ Fauci to Department of Justice,” The Washington Examiner (July 15, 2025).
In formally requesting the prosecution of Fauci again, Sen. Paul cited the questionable legality of the autopen signatures that preemptively pardoned Fauci, while “Sleepy Joe Biden” was . . . on who-knows-how-many drugs.
The spread of the novel coronavirus led, we all remember, to the roll-out of a number of new novel medications, subsidized by government and, in many cases, required by government.