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Richard Dooling

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatme

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In the mid-1980s, the country was spending roughly eight percent of its total economic output on healthcare. Even at that time, people already felt that many medical treatments were overly aggressive and unnecessary.

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