Corporate Empathy: A Race To The Bottom Of The Ladder

As the Republican Presidential primary race heats up, the candidates start to get tied, the debate becomes ever so more heated and raw, and the true colors of reality starts to show. Where the race will lead us and the movement to improve the nation's system of medical benefit delivery to injured workers' is really anyone's best guess. As of now the temperature of the debate and the emotion being generated portends poorly for the benefit of workers as the corporate mentality reflects no empathy for workers and the race to the bottom of the ladder continues.


For more read the NY Times Editorial today"The Corporate Candidates."
"Mr. Romney claims his background as a businessman provides him with an understanding of the economy and the ability to fix it. His opponents — particularly Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Rick Perry — say their political experience provides the same advantage. In truth, none have offered anything but tired or extremist economic prescriptions, providing little evidence that they can relate to those at the middle or bottom of the ladder."

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Huntsman Steps Up To Reform Workers' Compensation

John M. Huntsman, the Republican presidential dark-horse candidate from Utah, has his own agenda on attacking workers' compensation and disability benefits. Endorsed today by The Boston Globe, campaign spectators will need to keep a watchful eye on the race as the workers' compensation system is now becoming a major target of Presidential reform without a new substitute system in sight.

Read more about the platform of Jon M. Huntsman:  Morning Feature: To Create Jobs, Subsidize Labor

"Huntsman says his plan is revenue neutral, so who would pay to subsidize investors? He says he’ll pay for it by eliminating deductions and loopholes. While some of those are corporate goodies that many progressives would like to see gone, Huntsman would also take away deductions and credits that help low- and middle-income families, such as exclusions on primary income Social Security benefits, veterans pensions and disability benefits, military combat pay, workers compensation payments, public assistance benefits, and employer-paid health insurance..."

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Gingrich Calls Present Workers' Compensation System Dangerous

Entitlement programs were a hot issue in the Iowa Caucuses, and the nation's workers' compensation system has become an ancillary target. In the final hours of the Iowa debate,  Newt Gingrich called the present workers' compensation system as "very dangerous." 

Whoever the winner of tonight's contest is on the Republican side, that person will ultimately carry forth the Republican agenda to review the nation's disability program including both workers' compensation and disability. 


Click here for the NY Times story on the results of the Iowa Caucuses

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The Gingrich Revival and The Future of Workers' Compensation

Newt Gingrich's sudden rise in popularity this week for the Republican nomination for the US presidency has yet again raised the concern as to whether the workers' compensation program will become extinct. Mr. Gingrich has long sought the withdrawal of any employer contributions to workers' compensation.

"We have to rethink and redesign the public policies we created for people with disabilities, for workers' compensation, and for long-term living. Policies and systems that made perfect sense in an industrial era make no sense in the information age. The paternalistic solutions of the twentieth century are actually roadblocks to hope and opportunity in the twenty-first century.

Century Contract with America By Newt Gingrich

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Proposal to Eliminate Participation of Lawyers

A proposal has been made by the Commission of Labor in Oklahoma, Mark Costello, to eliminate the participation of lawyers at the hearing level in workers' compensation matters. The reform has been suggested to save money and put more money on the hands of the injured workers.


Costello, a local businessman, was elected last November on the Republican ticket. He founded American Computer & Telephone (AMCAT) that he sold in 1991.


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