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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workers’ compensation insurance arrangement (private insurer, exclusive public state or provincial workers’ compensation board) the healthcare expenditures by workers’ compensation systems are relatively small compared to the total national spending on healthcare. In my view, this would be a mistake.

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, and Workers’ Compensation require employers pay a percentage of “earnings” over and above any contribution required of workers (typically paid out of gross earnings and often lumped together as “payroll taxes”). or 1.25% of total employer cost of employee compensation [$36.77].