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Scrap the Workers Comp system and just cover "work related" accidents
and illnesses same as all others. Even without the crooks and ambulance
chasers, I suspect that at least 50% of repetitive motion and back
injuries are mostly the result of overweight and out-of-condition folks
who lawyer up to get tax-free benefits. The waste in fighting to get a
condition considered "work related" is horrendous. The crooks are
sucking money right out of your pocket in monies that could be paid to
good, honest people in wages.

A lot of this is political, too. Shocked that I know you are. For
instance, there are a whole list of diseases (COPD, cancers and even
Parkinsons) that by statute are automatically work-related in
firefighters. Others have similar carve outs.

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