In a response to Joseph LaDou's article in this issue, Michael Lax focuses on the broader issues. If we are agreed that we need significant change in Workers' Compensation, what should the nature of those changes be? Of equal importance to knowing what we want is the development of a strategy for how to get there. Without an effective strategy, we will be consigned to discussing the issues again and again, developing attractive alternatives that live only on paper or at conferences.
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