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To the Editor: It is estimated that U.S. health care expenditures for 1992 totaled $838.5 billion, or 14 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP). On January 6, 1993, the day this information was presented in a front-page story in The New York Times, I casually asked 15 colleagues who had not yet heard the report (9 cardiologists in academic medicine, 4 cardiologists in private practice, and 2 cardiology fellows) to estimate these figures. Their responses are summarized in Table 1.

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There was no significant difference between the mean estimate and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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