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Explore US health care spending for 155 conditions for the years 1996 through 2016. Use the interactive Sankey diagram, treemap, and pyramid chart to analyze trends by age, sex, type of care, condition, and payer. New in Nov 2017: view how different factors drove changes in spending.
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Tracking personal health care spending in the US. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2016. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/dex. (Accessed [INSERT DATE])
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