The new Republican health care program proposal–the American Health Care Act–was released yesterday (March 6) and with it came the expected comparisons with the effects under The Affordable Care Act. At the Kaiser Family Foundation, Cynthia Cox estimated the changes of the tax subsidies under both programs. I posted a column chart of the change in tax subsidies between the two programs to Twitter, but thought others might have ideas of how to visualize the data in different ways.
The data are in an Excel file here with the original table and column chart in another worksheet.
Thanks,
Jon
I took a stab at this, attempting to show some information about the distribution in changes for each group–but I’m not fully satisfied with how I show the three values.
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I went for a dumbbell plot in a facet grid to split up the percentiles (Reno, Average, Mobile) and age groups.
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Hey Paul,
I like this solution, but I might change the lines to arrows to make it easier for the reader to see the direction of the change.
Thanks
I thought line charts would be good for comparing plans, but more information is needed to do it well. That is, with age on the X, one would need to incorporate the actual cut-offs in the plans, which I can’t readily find. I went with a step interpretation on the provided ages.
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Jon, I think the charts should have vertical axis because they don’t visualize time-related data.
Something like this perhaps?
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I really like the original column chart, but just to give it a try and allow for cross-comparison, i came up with this “twister” chart.
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