The Economist charts are a rhetorical tool designed to highlight a point they're making (I think the points are valid and the charts are good and interesting).
The spreadsheet I'm "advocating" is less like that, and more like the tables in a 10K filing. It's simply an accounting of where US health dollars go, and where the money comes from.
I'm not saying that spreadsheet rebuts any claim this article makes (though it might). I'm saying it's a remarkably simple and comprehensive piece of data to fit onto a single screen, and when we discuss health care economics, it's extraordinarily helpful to have that data available.
The spreadsheet I'm "advocating" is less like that, and more like the tables in a 10K filing. It's simply an accounting of where US health dollars go, and where the money comes from.
I'm not saying that spreadsheet rebuts any claim this article makes (though it might). I'm saying it's a remarkably simple and comprehensive piece of data to fit onto a single screen, and when we discuss health care economics, it's extraordinarily helpful to have that data available.