US health expenditure per capita

As US health expenditure has grown, Catholic exorcists have multiplied, a correlation of 0.976 that connects the cost of American healthcare to the practice of spiritual warfare with the billing confidence of a chart that treats hospital invoices and holy water as equivalent healing modalities. The healthcare bill arrives, the rite is performed, and both numbers climb because a nation that spends more on every form of intervention spends more on both medical and metaphysical ones.

Health spending grew from about $7,000 to over $12,000 per capita. Exorcists grew from 12 to over 175. Both nine-year curves. Health spending rises because of medical inflation; exorcists multiply because of institutional expansion. The indirect connection: a healthcare system that leaves some needs unaddressed may create demand for alternative interventions, including spiritual ones.

Nine years of health spending and exorcists is a correlation that accidentally raises a question about what healthcare does not cover: as medical bills grow, some Americans seek healing outside the medical system, and the exorcist represents the most extreme alternative. The copay is paid, the rite is requested, and both numbers measure a nation seeking intervention from every available source.