In this visualization, Stephen Few helps make sense of healthcare costs.
About this Viz
A graph that shows the average cost per patient per disease appears in the top right. Even though this display consists of eight graphs, it isn’t difficult to understand, because each individual graph is simple. By seeing them together, you can discover interesting facts and patterns that would remain hidden if we could view only one graph at a time.
Notice how many patients are affected by hypertension overall (the blue bar in the upper left graph), resulting in huge treatment costs (second bar graph), even though the per patient cost is relatively low (rightmost bar graph), and the patients’ portion of costs is near the middle (third bar graph), yet hypertension has little effect on the young (the two line graphs on the right).
