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Posted on 12/01/2003 7:38:02 AM PST by Holly_P
BTTT so everyone will read your comments! If we didn't have socialized medicine, this wouldn't be a public issue at all. People should make their own decisions about their own safety IF they, not the public, are responsible for the financial consequences.
my neighbor lost his 45 yr old brother this summer in FLA. No helmet.
He was motoring down the street on his harley - his street- and his next door neighbor didnt see him and backed up, right into him.
Fortunately, a Church was nearby and the Pastor held him in his last moments of consciousness.
Once in the hospital - he was sustained (though brain dead). His elderly parents and his brother (my neighbor) then had the difficult task of pulling the plug thrust upon them. It was a second death of sorts - Imagine your own child, dying twice. His Father nearly died as well from the stress
I still dont see how you could derive a humorous response from that......
Exactly the sort of non-logic I would expect from an anti-helmet idiot.
Motorcyclists are just as likely to be privately insured as any other road user. As a matter of fact, motorcyclists are slightly LESS dependent upon public funds to pay their hospital bills than the general public. A Harborview Medical Center study reported that 63.4% of the injured motorcyclists in the trauma center relied on public funds while 67% of the general patient population relied on public dollars during the same time period. A study by the University of North Carolina's Highway Safety Research Center reported that 49.5% of injured motorcyclists had their medical costs covered by insurance, while 50.4% of the other road trauma victims were similarly insured. This analysis refutes any suggestions that motorcyclists disproportionately rely on public health-care funds to pay for their hospitalization. Take into account that less than 6/10ths of one percent of crash-involved vehicles are motorcycles, a very small number to begin with.
humor???
I see it as making a point...
I have heard that in Emergency Rooms, motorcycles are refered to as "Donorcycles."
Riding them in traffic is dangerous...
During my 20 years of driving, I have been "hit" by other cars at least three times. None have caused even the slightest injury. Any could have been fatal on a motorcycle.
Riding a motorcycle is dangerous. Riding without a helment is suicide!
That said, I fully support people's rights to do it. I just wish the government wouldn't make ME pay for the consequences of their decision.
FMCDH
The Government ought not — but they will — tell us what we can do....
We should — but we don't always — have enough sense to protect....
Not true for me (I've been riding for 25 years). Without a helmet I'm more aware of the noise that wind makes rushing past my ears and I'm more aware of the bugs and rocks that hit me in the face. Other than those two things I'm more aware of everything else with afull face helmet on.
That being said, there should not be a law requiring helmets. If some idiot wants to splat his/her brains on the concrete that's fine with me.
I think the "study" that found that $103 million taxpayers dollars was spent on 119 people in motorcycle accidents is a bunch of crap. No way roughly one million govt. dollars was spent on each person. The only way this is true would be if they counted 100 govt. HUD workers (do nothing so must be assigned somewhere) on the payroll for each accident.
More nanny-state govt. at work...
From the original story:
The study calculated that those casualties cost the citizens of Louisiana $102 million.
Medicare...Medicaid...Social Security (to people who never paid in.)
I would prefer that bikers wear helmets but it's their choice.
And where the hell do you get off calling bikers low lifes who demand welfare? Most bikers I know are fiercely independent and don't want squat in gov't handouts.
My brother was a Christian and worked 2 jobs. He was also a Vietnam vet. He wasn't any kind of low life and neither are his friends who bike. They're regular working people who just happen to enjoy motorcycles.
my condolences
....I also see the game youre playing -
squished ego's aside, I find most of the whiners, young, ignorant and blind to the fact the will be experiencing road rash at least once in thier experiences....a majority would walk away from it if they wore a helmet
Why do I need to subsidize some rice burning rockets insurance coverage by participating in the same risk pool ?
Those who make statements like this are naive. I had a wreck 7 months ago at 35-40 mph. I was NOT wearing a helmet and was glad that I hadn't been. My head was one of the first things on my body to make contact with the road. As it was, my legs got chewed up a bit and I walked out of the hospital on my own 3 hours after the accident. Not one of the doctors there could believe it. If I'd been wearing a helmet, I'd be dead or paralyzed. When the proposition is 50/50 at best, people should decide their own fate. If there'd been a helmet law in Indiana at the time of my wreck - the likely hood is I would be dead as a result of law - not as a result of the accident. And that is immoral.
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