Originally Posted by
GlennR
What about if you are in the hospital and run up a large bill? Who do you think pays for it? If you have insurance then the fees go up, just like smokers pay more because they have more health issues. If you don't have insurance then tax payers pay for it.
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I am proof of a flaw in that logic. A helmet saved my life. I spent 5 days in a coma in a neurosurgical ICU. Three weeks on the hospital. Years passed before I could earn enough money to pay more than peanuts in taxes. I never learned what my stay cost but it was not a small number.
Had I not been wearing a helmet, I would have gone on one ambulance ride, not two, then to a funeral home and burial. (Maybe not even that first ride. First ride might have been the morgue truck. So, what? $5000? (in 1977). A service? Whatever, it would have been far less.
I visit this thread every once in a while. I watch the same school kids rolling out their same arguments. I learn nothing I didn't already know.