As the administration keeps on insisting how the Health Care Bill will reduce our deficit, let’s look back on the Big Dig project in Boston. It rerouted the chief highway through the heart of Boston into a 3.5 mile tunnel under the city.
The project was estimated in 1985 at $2.8 billion. But alas estimates as of today are that it cost $22 billion. Like our health care plan, this project was plagued with graft, corruption, bid-rigging and special deals with and for the unions. The largest concrete supplier was charged with delivering sub-standard product. A fatal accident resulted in a 3 ton concrete panel falling on a car in 2006. And there have been thousands of leaks in the tunnel.
So back to health care. The Big Dig was small time in complexity and ramifications compared to our nations health care system. If government messed up this highway construction project so badly how do you think they will do with the far more complex and costlier federal health care system?
No comments:
Post a Comment