Veto Override Required Compromises and Fancy Legislating

Backroom negotiations and lobbyist involvement are rarely associated with changes that benefit the many over the few. But talks this week between business groups and physicians led to the Illinois state Senate’s approval of a bill that could mean more doctors will sign up to treat injured workers, supporters said. “The medical society wouldn’t give in,” said Dr. David Fletcher, an occupational medicine physician who has worked for years to correct a loophole in state law that allowed insurers to pay workers’ compensation doctors late without any int...