Visualizing the $5 Trillion US Healthcare System Through a Sankey Diagram
By
brandonb
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article presents a visual representation of the US healthcare system's financial flows using a Sankey diagram styled after Ernst Haeckel's scientific illustrations. It maps the entire $5 trillion healthcare system, revealing its complex, interconnected nature that the author describes as an 'eldritch horror' or 'abominable creature' that has been built piece by piece through various programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-based insurance. The visualization aims to make the incomprehensible scale and complexity of healthcare financing more understandable by following the money flow through the system.
Key quotes
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Follow the money and you might get lost. That's why I made a diagram for the entire US healthcare system's financial flows - covering an incomprehensible $5 Trillion in healthcare spending.
But we built this creature. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we assembled it piece by piece - Medicare for the elderly, insurance through jobs, Medicaid for the poor, exchanges for everyone else.
A representation of the US Healthcare Financing Flow Sankey diagram in the style of Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature.
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