Healthcare

Retirement is tough with this one factor.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seemingly taken over the world. Certainly not the way we expected, with Terminator robots and Matrix plug-ins, but it's taking over nonetheless.

Come on man. We watched life shut down in 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic, and then just a few short month ago, H5N1, otherwise known as Bird Flu, began spreading across the United States. You'd think that would be more than enough to throw at us, but the universe isn't done with us yet.

Maybe one of the most defining characteristics of the American machine is our absurd healthcare policies. While much of the rest of the world pays for much of their care out of pocket, Americans typically have to rely on insurance companies to help them out.

There are few things these days worth your hard earned money, but your healthcare should always be top priority. Every year, people spend millions across the state of Arizona to get themselves feeling right, and we rely on the system to take care of us.

It's a crazy small world we live in. Something that happens in one part of the world could have connection to somewhere on the opposite side of the globe. Such is the case with the tragic assassination of former United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, whos threads reach all the way from The Big Apple to the Grand Canyon State.

The US News and World Report has released their rankings of the states, and you might not like where Arizona lands