04-18-2024, 06:01 AM
Michael wrote:
I think there should be a requirement that if you don't wear a helmet that any medical care you need from such a decision shouldn't be insurance-based or society-based but rather out of your own pocket. Or from your estate.
I ran a program until 2007 or so that had a few clients with TBI from motorcycle accidents. Acute rehab emptied their insurance in weeks, then they cost the state about 225 a day to take care of. Their own finances wouldn't have lasted long, if they'd had any. Actually, one was wearing a helmet. All were engaging in high-risk behavior, but what do you do? Most of us have done things that could have put us in the same situation.