Comp Not Feeling Effect of ACA

ORLANDO, Fla. — If the Affordable Care Act is having any effect on workers’ compensation systems, it’s nothing more than a ripple, according to National Council on Compensation Insurance Senior Economist Leonard Herk. Speaking Thursday at NCCI’s Annual Issues Symposium, Herk said one of the theories about the health care reform commonly called Obamacare is that by giving more Americans insurance and access to doctors, it could “crowd out” workers’ compensation patients. To test that, Herk compared services provided to injured workers during t...