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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193636/

> Of the members of the general population who reported they had “pains in the heart,” 25 percent did not see a physician (Andersen and Anderson, 1967).

Sounds awesome.

The article makes a pretty good case for your 1968 date being an attribution error - that years before it, the rise of things like transplants, ICUs, demographic changes, etc. were already messing up costs.



I've seen charts of medical costs over time, there's a knee in the curve in 1968.





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