File talk:Health costs USA GDP.gif

Misleading nature
This graph is incredibly misleading in how it is laid out. By the fact that the years are on the y axis, it naturally instills the thought that health care costs as a percentage of the GDP have risen drastically because the graph has nowhere to go but up, since years always increase! Any good statistician, researcher, or persons with even a basic understanding of graphs would tell you than the years should always be on the x-axis and that the variable being shown to change is to be on the y-axis! Therefore, I would STRONGLY recommend that this graph be replaced in favour of one that has the correct layout. Grizzwald (talk) 21:34, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah this is really awful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.252.4.21 (talk) 10:15, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Third this.--209.129.174.149 (talk) 22:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

I concur. I don't think That I've ever seen a graph laid out with percentage in the horizontal axis and time in the vertical axis. I've never contributed to Wikipedia or any of its discussions before, but I just had to stop in and make sure someone else at least noticed this. Is there a way can replace it or at least invert the axes? P.S. Sorry if I don't sign this properly or whatnot and. I don't know what I'm doing, but I do at least know a little about graphing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.125.52 (talk) 18:20, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Concur. If no-one opposes I will fix this once I get some free time. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 13:39, 25 March 2013 (UTC)