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Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

Jobs, Growth & Universal Healthcare


Robert Reich, in a 3 minute video, states the reasons why jobs, growth and universal healthcare are needed to expand the US economy. 

This is reflective of the issues plaguing the nation's workers' compensation system, especially soaring medical delivery costs (administrative, clinical and pharmaceutical).  

Read more about "universal healthcare" and workers' compensation:

Feb 01, 2013
Medical care afforded by workers' compensation delivery systems will ultimately be merged into a universal national program, despite all the opposition along the way. My friend, and cycling inspiration, who keeps me trying to ...
Nov 09, 2012
Going forward it is imperative that a universal medical program be established to provide medical treatment for all work-related occupational injuries and exposures. The delay and denial of medical benefits to those who suffer ...
Jul 05, 2012
Those efforts demonstrate a commitment to bring the nation ever closer to a universal care medical program incorporating the entire patchwork of workers' compensation medical delivery systems. The US Supreme Court has ...
Mar 05, 2011
Vermont Universal Health Care to Embrace Workers Compensation. A two-stage bill in Vermont is geared to establishing a single-payer medical health care system that would include medical for workers' compensation ...

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Outsourcing is the New Carve Out for Government

The economic consequences of the Depression of 2007 is causing a huge drop in governmental employment and a rebound of that job market is not anticipated in the foreseeable future. In order to save payroll costs, including the expense of workers’ compensation benefits, governmental entities are looking to privatization to avoid expenses. A pattern of furloughing staff, laying off employees and eventually outsourcing work, is the present trend.  This pattern mirrors the original workers’ compensation carve out provisions utilized to lower costs originated by Bechtel and other large employers.