Once More Forgotten Mary Bailey June 6, 2005

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Honorable Lawmakers,

Once again the session has come and gone and injured workers concerns have
been ignored. Once again we got no relief from the legislature in making
the workers compensation system of this state truly fair, equitable and
self-executing.

What will it take for you to do the right thing? When will you be honest
with yourself and objectively look at the comp system? When and if you do
you will see that the system is so biased against injured workers that it
has to be fixed immediately.

We filed a bill this session, (SB2416), and asked you to take it up. You
did not. It would have brought tremendous relief to injured workers.
This bill was balanced and fair. You can find this bill on our homepage
of our webpage www.voicesflorida.com under Capitol Campaign 2005 or on the
Senate webpage.

We ask you now to take a look at that bill. We ask for your help. We
know the bill will be re-filed next session and given a new number so
let's just call it the VOICES Workers Compensation Bill of 2005 filed by
Senator Anthony Hill. We ask that you look over this bill and back it in
future legislative sessions.

Injured workers have patiently waited for relief from the legislature for
several years now. When will our concerns be addressed? When will you
make it a fair playing field for injured workers trapped in the comp
system?

We don't have money for lobbyists; we can't even make it to the
Capitol to lobby. We are hurting and broke and it's because lawmakers
continually hear from able-bodied, well-paid insurance and business
lobbyists and fail to see the workers comp situation from the place of the
injured worker. It's not a pretty picture.

There are far more issues to be considered in workers comp than those of

business and insurance. There are also the issues of the persons who are
the intended targets, clients, consumers of all the legislation. But those issues are
routinely ignored.

Please listen to our concerns and act today to make injured workers whole
again. We can't wait any longer.

Sincerely,
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