Where Your Health Dollars Go (Redux)

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Apr.2025

To Understand the Healthcare system, follow the money

"Where your Health Dollars Go" is a map of the US healthcare system and its components. By following the allocation and flow of money in healthcare, the thread of how the organizations, departments, and major players are connected becomes apparent.

We expand on prior work and present an interactive map of the flow. Check it out and see how your dollars work their way through the system from your paycheck to the paychecks of nurses and the pockets of shareholders and CEOs. Select stories to focus on specific parts of the system.

Screenshot of Where Your Healthcare Dollars Go interactive map.

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The Process

Comic frame 1: The original Where Your Health Dollars Go map, with a comic style caption, 'The Original'.

Comic frame 2: Two people are looking at the original map. The first says 'But where does it go from here? Who\'s making all that money?!' The second is thinking 'You doc? Or CEOs?'

Comic frame 3: Back in the studio, time for desk research! A designer pours over stacks of papers and charts. Citations float about the room.

Comic frame 4: The designer thinks out loud, 'I got the big totals, but... what about the breakdowns?!' Behind the designer hangs a backdrop of an Airtable database.

Comic frame 5 — From off page, the designer's voice calls, 'Oh Gemini! Give me a hand! Please provide an estimate table of the breakdowns of expense for the home health industry. Include categories similar to prior tables.' Below that text buble are two screenshots of Gemini output.

Comic frame 6 — Sketches on paper of the interactive map. In a caption box it reads, 'Time to sketch up some ideas...'

Comic frame 7 — Caption box reads, 'Then give prompt-to-build a try!' with screenshots of Cursor and a early version of the map.

Comic frame 8 — The designer thinks out loud, 'Well that\'s... ugly. Let\'s Design!.' Behind the designer is a backdrop of a Figma file.

Comic frame 9 — Text bubbles forming a process loop: Text-to-code, debug, evaluate, what's next, desgn, iterate!

Comic frame 10 — The designer and person from Frame 2 are looking at the new interctive map. The designer says, 'Well that\'s closer'. The other person thinks, 'It\'s something!'

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Author

Daniel Reeves, GoInvo

Daniel is a designer and developer with a diverse background in building interactive and science-based exhibits to academic research in interdisciplinary physics. He has a PhD in physics and quantitative biology from Brandeis University and held subsequent positions at Harvard and MIT. Daniel joined the GoInvo team in 2018 to build engaging biologic and healthcare services.

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