Will Democrats Bring Another National 24-Hour Care Proposal?

The election of Barack Obama as president and the arrival of a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress could bring another bid to merge part of the states' workers' compensation systems into a national health care reform plan, according to some political observers. During last week's Workers' Compensation Research Institute conference in Cambridge, Mass., workers' compensation researcher Peter Barth told the conference he believes the integration of workers' comp with health care is a possibility because this was proposed under the Clinton administration.Bar...