Opinion Writers Battle about Failed Medical Fee Schedule Bill

Opinion writers continue to duel about the merits of an “agreed-on” workers’ compensation bill, AB711, that failed to win support this legislative session, using the dailyreporter.com in Milwaukee as their platform.On March 17, Jerry Deschane wrote that the medical lobby’s success in killing the bill that would have imposed a medical fee schedule “will cost Wisconsin businesses and workers more than $1 billion.”Deschane, president of a lobbying firm that works for the construction industry, said legislators felt caught between employers and medical...