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Health Care in the United States
- teuobk 17y agoData sources?
- chrisgoodrich 17y agohttp://whoadata.appspot.com/healthcare/notes.html http://whoadata.appspot.com/healthcare/notes.html
- m0th87 17y agoClick on any of the stats and they link to the highlighted source it came from.
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- mnemonicsloth 17y agoFlagged as political. The US Senate passed the biggest ever piece of health care legislation yesterday. The debate has been angry and has been going on for more than six months. How is it not obvious that this is flamebait?
- m0th87 17y agoI was hoping to garner interest because its my first infographic-ish creation, and I'd like some criticism before designing another. It clearly has a political leaning, but it was also designed to avoid the current health care debate and any discussion on what the optimal solution is. Rather, it's simply supposed to portray the problems that exist with the current system. As a side-note, the bill is far from passed; the Senate still has to reconcile its differences with an angry House before it gets on the President's desk.
- chrisgoodrich 17y agoI loved the data visualizations. The only political ideal that this pushes is the need for reform, but I don't think anybody debates that. As a side-note to the side-note, the bill has yet to even pass the Senate. They have merely cleared procedural hurdles to avoid a filibuster. A final vote is expected late on Christmas eve, however it only needs a simple majority to pass which it is likely to get without a problem.
- m0th87 17y agoThey're all (minus the world map) generated by the Google Visualization API and the Google Chart API. Part of the reason I made this was to learn those APIs. They're pretty cool, although the chart API has some infuriatingly bad habits in rendering.
- tedunangst 17y agoA bar graph of numerical ranking is probably the most misleading way to present data I've ever seen. I'll have to remember that...
- teamonkey 17y agoAlso "Lower bars are better" is quite ambiguous in this case.
- m0th87 17y agoYes, for both of these reasons I felt somewhat hesitant of including that chart. There really is no way of quantifying the effectiveness of any health care system very well, but I feel the need to try to provide some sort of perspective, so I figured munging some of the most common indicators together might have some sort of value. Any ideas on another way of doing this?
- tlrobinson 17y agoIs the expenditures graph adjusted for inflation?
- m0th87 17y agoYes. It's based on National Health Expenditure Data, but it's more or less a replica of this by the NYT: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/28/business/0301-sbn-webHEALTH.gif http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/28/business/0301...
- jcnnghm 17y agoHow do patient outcomes compare for those with insurance in the United States versus other countries? What percentage of global health R&D occurs in the United States?
- m0th87 17y agoI didn't find any solid stats on that sort of information. Patient outcomes are difficult because there is room for subjectivity. R&D I really wanted because a common argument is that one of the reasons why costs are so high is because taxpayers subsidize research.