Injured Motorcyclists receive NO care

[r1owner]

I'm all for always wearing your helmet...

However, I don't agree with the burden statement...

If that was the case, surely lives could be saved if we all wore helmets in cars.  So, lets mandate that.  If you're not wearing a helmet in a car and you're injured, then you should be denied care as well.

[Protein Filled]

If that was the case, surely lives could be saved if we all wore helmets in cars.  So, lets mandate that.  If you're not wearing a helmet in a car and you're injured, then you should be denied care as well.

heck, don't even go that far. What about if people did not receive health care if they were not wearing a seat belt and they got hurt? Wearing seat belts is a law in most states, but they would not deny you health coverage if you didn't!

[r1owner]

heck, don't even go that far. What about if people did not receive health care if they were not wearing a seat belt and they got hurt? Wearing seat belts is a law in most states, but they would not deny you health coverage if you didn't!

I agree with you.  
My point was more to say that lives could be saved if we wore helmets in cars, so by not forcing us to, they are increasing the costs for all of us...

It's just a question of how far you want to go with them deciding what's best for us...

[251am]

I believe New Mexico started this latest fiasco about 18 months ago. They introduced legislation to turn ALL motorcycle fatalities into COMPLETE organ donors, head to toe, whatever was needed at the hospital could be taken. That legislation was shot down. However, it gave other morons in government some reeeaaalllly stupid ideas about motorcyclists and how we should be legislated upon.

   I generally do not like the way the AMA dramatizes this stuff, but they are the only ones standing up for all of us in the public and government's eye. There's so much stupid crap going on in government right now...

[Jeff]

Tell me how a seatbelt law for cars is different from a helmet law for motorcycles...

On insurance companies covering and paying out...

In 1996-2000 when I was street riding, my insurance company USAA, gave me an option of limiting my coverage if I were to be injured or had an accident without a DOT approved helmet on for a substantial discount.  It was a no brainer...

Likewise, most insurance companies will NOT cover you if you get into an accident while intoxicated (or commiting a crime, etc).  

So what happens when a person runs out of insurance or insurance doesn't cover them?

Do I support some idiot saying we all must be mandatory organ donors?  Not unless I get claim on his kids kidneys.  Certainly I don't.  

Is it realistic to think that treatment would be denied for the intoxicated/non-seat belted/helmetless?  Absolutely not.