Getting Paid for Familial Duties

Anyone wondering what’s wrong with our workers’ compensation insurance law need only read “Pay for Family Caregivers a Workers’ Comp Secret” (Personal Finance, June 22).

This is, of course, but a small part of the whole home-care insanity in which those who know the system can get money from the government for doing what 99% of families do because they are families.

The notion that Paul Smith is going to collect $21 an hour for “nearly full-time care” for driving his wife to the doctor really says all that needs to be said about why we’re having a crisis.

Arthur O. Armstrong

Manhattan Beach