The Legislature tends to pass sweeping policy changes by trumpeting their supposed beneficial impacts, but only rarely revisits their decrees to see how they worked out.
Legislative leaders pay verbal homage to “oversight,” but on the rare occasions it occurs, it is more often than not superficial or self-serving, rather than deep and objective.
Comparing what legislation purports to do with what it really does is often the subject of reports by outside interest groups, but they are generally stakeholders in the issue, rather than objective evaluators. And that makes a new report on the state’s $19 billion per year system of compensating workers for job-related injuries and illnesses something of an odd duck.
