Bob Wilson, former CEO of WorkersCompensation.com, reviews the keynote address from the first day of WCRI's recent conference:

The workers’ compensation industry may soon feel the reverberations of sweeping changes to America’s health insurance landscape, according to Dr. Benjamin Sommers, who delivered the opening keynote address at the 2026 Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) Issues and Research Conference here in Boston today.

Dr. Sommers, the Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a practicing primary care physician, drew on his extensive research portfolio and experience as a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to outline what he described as a partial unraveling of the coverage gains achieved under the Affordable Care Act — and what that could mean for employers, injured workers, and the workers’ compensation system.

Read his full review here.  Videos from the conference will be available in the near future: Stay tuned!

For another review of Dr. Sommers' address to the conference, see Joe Paduda: How Medicaid and ACA cuts will affect work comp: Key takeaways from Dr Sommers' keynote.