Do you see them in schoolbuses with all those PRECIOUS little children?
And why not?
Seatbelt laws are only passed for the reason that they collect more revenue for the greedy government, who couldn't be less interested in actual safety.
Seatbelts aren't a big deal in school busses because in a typical collision between a 20,000lb bus and a 3,000lb car the passengers on the bus will feel a slight jolt.
Deciding you are going to cripple yourself is not a private decision when someone else is going to have to pay your medical bills.
The government cannot claim ownership of your body simply because it chooses to impose responsibility for your health care on the public. (Hey, we found a loophole in the 13th Amendment!) The logical extension of your argument would lead to totolitarianism. The simple solution is either not to impose these costs on the public or accept the fact that with public imposed health costs comes a need to tolerate the increased costs caused by bad personal choices (we can call this the "Liberty Tax").
Tell that to the survivors (there were some) of that schoolbus in Idaho that got T-boned by a 40,000-pound beet truck in Idaho when I was a kid.
Some "slight jolt!"
"Deciding you are going to cripple yourself is not a private decision when someone else is going to have to pay your medical bills."
Uhmmmm, I have not decided to cripple myself.
It's like the law requiring motorcyclists to wear helments. Instead of being killed outright in a motorcycle wreck, the helmet reduces it to a lifetime (at someone else's expense) in a wheelchair with a spinal injury or some such. Unforseen consequence.
Seatbelts may or may not be a good idea, examples exist both ways, but they are a terrible LAW.
So your solution to problems caused by illegal government meddling in health care is illegal government meddling in auto safety? You must be a liberal.
Gimme a break, what are you doing that costs all of us taxpayers? Oops, you must live in "Perfect."