Woodhouse proposed it be a flat fee, paid annually, no matter weather you are a truck driver, car driver, etc. He said that different people added different amounts to the community, and that it was not fair to only consider what they cost the community (in accidents) if you did not consider what they gave to the community.
He said it was very difficult to calculate what people gave, and as a result, a flat fee was both fair, and the cheapest to administer. He also made the comment that it was pointless trying to create a complex system to make it fair if that complexity cost more than it returned to the community.
In fact that last reason is why he proposed removing the right to sue. He was a former supreme court justice, and said that lawyers who took on workers compensation claims typically took a 30% cut. He did not consider a scheme where those injured only got 70% back as reasonable. So he proposed the "no fault" system instead, and cut out that 30% cost imposed by lawyers.
You can imagine many of his colleagues were not impressed ...
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