The New Big Dig
The May 21, 2008 Wall Street Journal likens the Massachusetts health plan to the “Big Dig” — i.e., the Boston highway construction project notorious for its inefficiency and cost overruns. Here are some excerpts:Well, the returns are rolling in, and the critics look prescient. First, the plan isn’t “universal” at all: About 350,000 more people are now insured in Massachusetts since the reform passed. Federal estimates put the prior number of uninsured at more than 657,000, so there was a reduct
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