"As Governor, I am committed to ensuring quality health care for injured workers and improving California's business environment. Workers' compensation costs were skyrocketing before I took office, and my reforms have lowered costs and ensured that objective medical standards are used to compensate workers based on the extent of their injuries. As a result, premiums have fallen dramatically since 2003 and saved businesses billions of dollars that they have used to hire more workers."

I believe the reforms just pushed injured worker's into unemployment, welfare, government disability and created more financial hardships for injured worker's families. Medical Standards, who decides how much disability or to what extent that disability injured worker's are left with the result of being injured on the job. "Saved businesses billions of dollars". That's unfortunately the bottom line. Employer's pay the premiums, so this is not an impartial system, is it? "Hire more worker's", What about the injured worker that wasn't accomodated by thier employer after thier work related injury?
I truly believe that employee's and employer's should pay into the system. I believe this would be the only way that the employee and the employer have any equality. This is just my opinion.