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

Mudbug67 said
Try this one; Let's say you hire on at a petro chemical plant and after 10 years you leave and shortly afterward you become sick with a condition long thought to be connected to chemicals present where you used to work. How do you get a previous employer to accept any responsibility? You hire an attorney and either convince a judge, a jury or the company,s attorney to cover you. If you lose you accept whatever help you can get.

That's how it works for you and I. Maybe not always the best results, but it's how the system works. I love football, but the players are just like you and I.

Hopefully the players union gets smart about taking care of future retirees in its next negotiations. I believe the reality of taking less money now in wages to protect their future will probably doom the possibility though.
JMO
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How funny you should post this scenario. This very thing happened to me. I started sweating fluorescent pink and this condition lasted about a month. I quit a few years later and it just happened to be after 10 years. The industrial hygienist took readings at the time and declared the area safe. Nobody else was afflicted as I was and now I have end stage liver disease of unknown origin (never been a drinker, no hepatitis, etc.) The records of my investigation no longer exist so they have no culpability though my hepatologist says that episode most likely led to my current condition though it cannot be proven.