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Mr. Jones,

If you are a legitimately injured police officer, or firefighter in California, then Arnold Schwartzennger is no friend of yours! It was through his legislation that has made getting treated impossibly difficult. Treatment and followup care is automatically denied, forcing injured workers to hire an attorney. This slows the process down even more. In many cases going to court is the only resolution. And in many cases judges have had to issue court orders against the workers comp insurance companies, so workers could receive proper treatment. Why does this have to happen?

The workers comp insurance companies have no problem with violating California labor law, because Schwartzenneger removed the penalties associated with failure to comply and as a result, don't feel the need and are not compelled to provide treatment. These companies hope you will get tired of fighting or die, so they don't have to pay out! These same companies, under Schwartzenegger's legislation are allowed to use out of state doctors, who have never personally seen or treated you, to make decisions about your health and welfare, without having a complete history of your injuries and full medical records. These out of state doctors might be making decisions based on nothing more than a few sentences from a request for treatment, absolutely absurd! But this happens every day!

We have no voice in Sacramento, to this day, and the legislature continues to pass laws that negatively affect legitimately injured workers. So before you embrace Arnold Schwartzenneger, maybe you should talk to many of the injured police and fire personnel that suffered as a result of his legislative actions.

And by the way, Schwarzenneger didn't save tax payer dollars, workers comp insurance companies are costing California tax payers many more millions now. He's not the great governor you think he is.

I guess it's okay to put our lives on the line every single day to protect and serve, but when we are legitimately injured in the line of duty, we are nothing more than a number on a file. It's not about proper treatment and care, its about money...