Who Pays for Healthcare?
Who Pays for Healthcare?
This week’s visualization is based on Voronoi’s chart of health care funding by country and compares how government, patients, other private sources, and external aid fund health spending across 23 selected countries. The article reports 2023 data; government includes social health insurance, while out-of-pocket payments exclude insurance premiums.
My Visualization
This visualization compares the mix of health care funding across countries, making differences in government support, direct patient payments, and private funding easy to explore.
AI-assisted Visualization
Below is an AI-assisted Plotly stacked bar chart comparing four funding sources, with an option to sort countries by government or out-of-pocket share.
Insights
- Among the 23 selected countries, Sweden and Japan have the highest government funding shares at 86.1% and 84.8%, while India and Mexico have the highest out-of-pocket shares at 43.9% and 41.2%;
- In the United States, government funds 54.0% of health spending, other private sources fund 35.1%, and patients pay 10.9% out of pocket; these shares describe the funding mix, not the total cost of care.
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