Community Health Centers Expand. Vermont's first community health center facility in Addison County will be built and an Essex County site will be refurbished with $2.2 million in new Affordable Care Act grants.
"With these two new grants, we continue to expand primary health and dental care in the state of Vermont through the community health center program, which now provides care to more than 110,000 Vermonters," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. " Our goal is to make sure that everyone in Vermont has access to high-quality primary care regardless of income and we're making real progress toward that goal. " A Sanders provision in the 2010 health care law authorized $11 billion to build, expand, and operate more community health centers nationwide, and an additional $1.5 billion to increase the number of primary care providers in underserved areas. The funding for these critical primary-care centers was designed to double to 40 million the number of patients served by health centers regardless of their ability to pay. Healthcare spending and life expectancy: a comparison of graphs - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
Yesterday I posted this graph, a parallel-coordinates plot showing health care spending and life expectancy in a sample of countries: I remarked that a scatterplot should be better.
Commenter Freddy posted a link to the data–you guys are the best blog commenters in the world! –so, just for laffs, I spent a few minutes making a scatterplot containing all the same information. Here it is. (Clicking on any of the graphs gives a larger version.) Sick and Wrong : Rolling Stone.