A critical component of our national "safety net," the state-regulated workers' compensation system, is being besieged, another victim of politicians reaching everywhere to generate short-term benefits by increasing services without raising taxes.
In one case, the principle that "politics makes strange bedfellows" was confirmed again last week when Ohio officials announced they were planning through two steps to provide a $1.9 billion cash rebate to the state's employers by tapping the reserves of the state's actuarially-sound workers' compensation fund.
Although it wasn't stated that way, in effect Ohio Gov. John Kasich was borrowing a page from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo new playbook, a playbook first written by Andrew's father, Mario.
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