Do no harm: Who should bear the costs of retired NFL players’ medical bills?

And why not the taxpayers?.....after all, we wanted him to play, we were cheering him all along, until he destroyed his body & health. heck, the gov. is throwing money away left & right.....its about time to do something useful....

you are assuming all taxpayers watch football. That is not a valid assumption. Maybe all fans are taxpayers, but not all taxpayers are fans.