Aspirin and Penicillin are the two greatest medical discoveries in history. Next thing you know the dictator will want you to get an Rx for aspirin.
That is already in the works.
The Bayer company was pushing very hard about ten years ago for Aspirin(tm) to be reclassified as a prescription drug. Their lobbying did not take.
But you may notice these days that the generic bottles of 500 tablets (at 1 cent per tablet) are no longer on most store shelves. They are all Bayer-branded items which are 300 units and 6-10 times the per-tablet price of the former brands. I am not sure how they did that.
Aspirin tablets in Europe are about 3 dollars per tablet. It is an unusual exception to the rule that US drug prices are higher.
Pharmaceutical companies are run by thieves.