After discussing Wednesday's meeting at the Department of Labor with several colleagues and reviewing notes, here are my key takeaways.
Lots of talk about benefit adequacy.
Lots of concern about work comp not covering real costs of disability.
Much reminiscing about the National Commission of 1972.
Evident concern about states reducing benefits to work comp patients.
Very little substantive discussion about the three key issues in comp:
Medical care and the quality thereof.
Secondary disability and the causes thereof.
The rapidly evolving labor world and...
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