Opinion: The interstate highway system: a model for investing in U.S. health care
Driving from California to Vermont, as I did this summer, offers time to think and plenty to look at.
The vast interstate highway system that I followed for much of my journey, championed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was created in large part by the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, which declared that building this highway system was “essential to the national interest.”
