US health expenditure per capita

As US health expenditure per capita has grown, more babies have been named Maverick, a correlation of 0.978 that connects the rising cost of American healthcare to bold baby naming with the medical precision of a chart that treats hospital bills and birth certificates as equivalent documents produced by the same event. The delivery costs more, the baby is named Maverick, and both numbers climb because the same nation produces more expensive births and more distinctive names every year.

Health spending grew from about $7,000 to over $13,000 per capita. Maverick grew to over 4,000 babies per year. Both eighteen-year upward curves. Health spending rises because of medical inflation and an aging population; Maverick rises because of cultural boldness. The correlation is driven by the same demographic clock that produces both more healthcare costs and more babies every year.

Eighteen years of health spending and Maverick is a correlation that connects the most expensive and the most personal aspects of American life: the cost of being born and the name you receive. The bill grows, the name grows, and both are products of the same nation doing both things at increasing scale. The copay is bold. The name is bolder.