References

Data

• Kaiser Family Foundation — Health System Tracker (https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/dashboard/)
• Kaiser Family Foundation – 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey (https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2020-employer-health-benefits-survey/)
• Kaiser Family Foundation – Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map (https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/)
• Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress — Long Term Trends in Deaths of Despair (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019/9/long-term-trends-in-deaths-of-despair)
• U.S. Census Bureau – Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by State All Persons: 2008 to 2019
• U.S. Census Bureau – Population Without Health Insurance Coverage by Race and Hispanic Origin: 2008 to 2019
• Gallup — Healthcare System (https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx)
• U.S. GeoJSON (http://bl.ocks.org/michellechandra/0b2ce4923dc9b5809922)

Libraries

• D3
• D3 Legend by Susie Lu (https://d3-legend.susielu.com/)
• R Tidyverse (for data preparation)
• Eleventy—static site generator for creating the article (https://11ty.dev/)

Useful Code Blocks

• Mike Bostock, "The Health and Wealth of Nations", https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/the-wealth-health-of-nations (for creating gridlines)
• Bill Morris, "Modular US State Chloropleth" (https://bl.ocks.org/wboykinm/dbbe50d1023f90d4e241712395c27fb3)

Background information on the Affordable Care Act from Wikipedia.