The correlation between healthcare spending and life expectancy
Hat tip FiveThirtyEight.
once you remove the U.S., there’s a strong correlation between spending and life expectancy, and this is super-clear from the scatterplot.
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Source
Healthcare spending and life expectancy: a comparison of graphs – Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
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