These 4 Shocking Charts Show What's Wrong With American Health Care

R code to reproduce the charts in the May 24, 2017 BuzzFeed News article on the problems with health care and health outcomes in the US.

Methodology/Code

The code to process the data and create the graphics in the article can be found online here, and in the R Markdown document index.Rmd.

Email the author Peter Aldhous at peter.aldhous@buzzfeed.com.

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