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Of course, following that reasoning to its logical conclusion, I guess employers and health insurers are perfectly right to discriminate against all motorcycle riders, as it is a much riskier form of transport than anything on four wheels. Why should all those normal people who drive cars have to subsidize your health care costs for the kinds of injuries you're much more susceptible to riding a bike? And then there's all those other risky activities that some people partake in: "Extreme" sports, many team sports (hockey springs to mind), promiscuous sexual activity, excessive alcohol consumption.

My point is only this: Do you really want to start down that road? Because you could soon find medical coverage denied for injuries sustained while riding your motorcycle in a reasonable manner while wearing full protective gear. Or swimming, or canoeing, or sky diving, or eating too many burgers or whatever.

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I guess employers and health insurers are perfectly right to discriminate against all motorcycle riders, as it is a much riskier form of transport than anything on four wheels.

its called a "risk pool" - and yes, if you can afford the "go fast" jap bikes, you can afford the premiums to subsidize the health care the rest of us have to pay in higher premiums all because of some misplaced masculinity issues.

...and if the Ins Co wants to "discriminate" on that basis, so be it - they are a private company.

Capitalism allows you to shop around for a vendor that ultimately offers what you want for what the market will bear.

Put a helmet on, pound salt and stop whining that we pay for your 'right" to a road rash