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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 783462">In a nutshell, this is what this is all about:The owners accept, as a cost of doing business, paying $20,000 all-in for a players knee replacement at age 45 under the retiree medical plan.What they want to avoid is paying $80,000 or more per year for an indeterminant number of years of nursing home care for a crippled or brain damaged player along with the ongoing expensive medical treatments that go along with that.But beyond medical costs, there is the potential of liability and more law suits arising from head, neck and spinal cord injuries.</blockquote>

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