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

State Of Affairs said
The reason I said read it is because too many arguments and seemingly yours also, are talking like "the system" is screwing the players when in reality, the players are trying to work the system and then screaming "poor me" when they get rejected...

Essentially, when a player is injured, lets say he blows out a knee, he gets medical treatment until the injury is completely recovered then he goes on to play and eventually retires our doesn't make a team.... Then 15 years later, he tries to file a workers comp claim because he needs a new knee or is having tons of pain... That's why they're getting rejected...

This is where I have problems... You abuse something, in this case your body, and then when it turns out bad, you blame everyone else.... Poor me poor me!!

I'm a huge take responsibility for your actions guy and get lots of thumbs down cuz this country is now a huge "everyone else is responsible" country

The system should weed out the abusers. I am neither for the employee nor for the employer. There were some posters who based their whole argument on the fact that the players were rich and knew better because of the risks.

My counter to this is there is a body of workers comp law at the state and federal level and the NFL is not exempt from workers comp anymore than any other employer just because playing the sport may result in injuries. There are a lot of professions were there is a high exposure to injury or illness and those employers are not exempt. Can we end this thread now?