Workers Compensation is gonna be Dead

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Professor Nono

Professor Nono

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For Tennessee: There are rumors floating that our legislature and the governor is going to take the workers compensation system out of the hands of the courts completely and put it into a state run administrative system. This is to take place within the next year or so. If you want injured workers to be treated by reject, insurance owned doctors that don't give a D&*# about actually making a patient better, support this move. If you want everyone, including employers, to have to deal with state employees in yet another matter, support this move. If you want the promise of insurance premium savings in the future, but no savings forthcoming at all, support this move (much like medical malpractice reform - ask docs if their premiums have gone down lately). If you want to take the ability to pursue compensation out of our court system and turn it over to a government administration, support this move. Folks, if you want bigger government, support this move.

This aint good - it just aint gonna turn out good.

Just sayin'.............
 
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But TN is GOP controlled. This cant be a government take over. The republicans are against that.
 
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Also as an employer, this just adds one more piece where I have to focus on governmental control rather than my customers.
 
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If employers simply pay for injuries that are work related you don't need a system. If employees stop asking for worker's comp for shizz that is not work related you don't need a system.

Most of our problems in society stem from greedy people. Whatever side of the fence they are on.
 
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DANG, my thread got demoted from the Pub to the Political forum. Do I get some sort of patch or award or something? This is a first.

Anyway, I have seen worker's comp from both sides of the plate - employer and employee. There is no denying that there are a portion of the claims that are fraudulent. However, sending the system into governmental administration over those fraudulent claims 1) will not prevent fraudulent claims and 2) will punish workers with legitimate claims. And that's that truth.

The real solution is to ring up those fraudulent claimants - but the state does NOTHING about it now. Nothing.
 
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