Reply #10: He has been being pressured to hand off more to carriers for the last [View All]

four years and always heldthem off.

A big (typical for Republicans) dealbreaker from the 89 reforms was that permanent disability benefits were to have gone up (California PD benefits rank low compared to other states)

The carriers back then said "Let us realize the savings first" Then, pf course, with term limits and a short legislative memory, they got away with not keeping that promise and the will in the legislature wasn't there to address it due to COMP LEGISLATION FATIGUE. (it was a large cumbersome bill)

Finally benetfits were increased approximately a year ago....and here we are cutting out the providers of those benfits again and limiting what was a 16,000 benefit to retrain people into gainful employment into a $4000 benefit for voc rehab. This will COST the state jobs and BTW...how many of you have retrained yourself for another profession for $4000.00 (while staving off creditors in an attempt to keep your home and feed your kids)?

This is a very bad bill for the grown men who have broken down to tears in front of me while trying not to lose everything.