It is March, and our thoughts turn to the Madness. Exploding offenses. Swarming defenses. Gut check time. They came to play and answered the bell. The best offense is a good defense. The best defense is a good offense. One shining moment. A Cinderella story outta nowhere. As I write this, the “Davids” of Yale, Wichita State, and Middle Tennessee have knocked Arizona, Baylor and Michigan State out of the Dance, and I’m grateful I had the wisdom and foresight to call Arkansas-Little Rock for the upset of Purdue.

But enough about how much work I’m getting done today. For the workers’ compensation bar, March 17 mattered in Pennsylvania even before Temple, Villanova, St. Joe’s, and Pitt hit the courts. At 9 a.m., the General Assembly’s House Labor and Industry Committee held a public hearing on HB 1800. Introduced by Rep. Ryan Mackenzie—whose district includes parts of Bucks and Lehigh counties—the legislation seeks to impose “evidence-based medical treatment guidelines” on workers’ compensation claims. This means, in a nutshell, that doctors treating injured workers would have to follow pre-set specific courses of treatment, designed by an un-elected and politically appointed panel of medical “experts,” rather than rely on their individual judgment as to how an injured worker should be treated. Apparently not like any other injured patient.

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