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Still at it. while in richardson's home, brown reportedly characterized obamacare as a, quote, monstrosity that's hurting the middle class. then something really remarkable happened which is that reality entered in. herb richardson, the guy who was hosting him, the republican state representative whose house he was in, spoke up to say that obamacare had been a financial life saver after he was injured on the job and his old pre-obamacare health insurance had eaten up most of his workers comp. "thank god for obamacare" richardson's wife exclaimed. brown, according to the reporter who was there,...

Make a difference in this case? >> well, the first problem they're going to have -- the obstacle they're going to have to overcome is the workers compensation bar. they have already pleaded that this falls outside of workers comp. most people don't realize you can't sue your employer because of a statute that says you have to go through the workers compensation process. if they can show this was not an accident as defined under the code and this was not a work-related single incident accident, then they may be able to avoid that workers compensation issue. but i have to maenl that the nfl has ...

Coming up in "the newsroom" the tables have turved, a super secret conversation on a train tweeted live by another passenger, definitely was not the quiet car. plus the pepper spray cop from uc davis, you will not believe how much money he's getting in workers comp.. hint, way more than the students he sprayed are getting. and cards sox evened up as the series heads to st. louis. newsroom continues now. good morning. i'm carol costello, thank you so much for joining us. sometimes you just can't help eav eavesdropping, right? a former political strategist found himself within earshot of a...

Claims for injured football players. if a player was a student athlete, they were not by definition an employee and ergo not qualified for workers comp if they got injured on the field. that means ncaa players are essentially the uncompensated employees of the cartel. players who literally as we saw risk their limbs on the court in order to produce a product that is immensely, immensely profitable. how profitable? in 2010, the ncaa reached a 14 year, $10.8 billion deal with cbs sports and turner broadcasting featuring just march madness. that's $770 million a year. what does it mean for the ba...

Senate need to kind of get withes the program because i think the country needs to send a stronger message internationally. >> well -- >> i have to say that i think americans realize you don't need a passport to work on human rights. and one of the big programs we're working on now is farm worksers rights. here in new york state, farm workers don't have the right to a day off per week, don't have the right to workers comp, don't have the right to form a union. you can be fired for trying to form a union here in new york and one farm worker i spoke to worked for ten years, 12-hour shifts, every...