US health expenditure per capita

As US health expenditure per capita has grown, more babies have been named Luna, a correlation of 0.980 that connects the rising cost of healthcare to celestial baby naming with the medical precision of a chart that treats hospital bills and birth certificates as equivalent documents. The healthcare costs more, the baby is named after the moon, and both numbers climb because the same nation produces more expensive healthcare and more creatively named babies every year.

US health expenditure grew from about $7,000 to over $13,000 per capita between 2005 and 2022. Luna grew to over 7,500 babies per year. Both are eighteen-year upward curves: health spending because of medical inflation, insurance costs, and an aging population, Luna because of cultural diversification and pop culture influence. The shared variable is a growing, aging, diversifying nation that spends more on everything, including healthcare and baby names.

Eighteen years of health spending and Luna babies is a correlation between two measures of American life getting more expensive and more interesting at the same time. The hospital bill grows, the name grows, and both are products of a nation that has more money, more cultural influences, and more healthcare costs every year. The birth is covered. The name is celestial. The copay is astronomical.