Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!kitty!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.legal Subject: Seat Belts (2nd attempt at posting) Message-ID: <321@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 12:02:56 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.321 Posted: Fri Jul 26 12:02:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jul-85 03:43:37 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.politics:10098 net.legal:1891 An alternate solution to heavy seat-belt laws: Insurance companies stop paying for injuries that would have been prevented by wearing a seatbelt. If you want seat-belt-free insurance you have to pay through the nose because it obviously puts you in a high-risk group. Suicide is already exempted from coverage, so there's a precedent. It will encourage people to wear seatbelts, shut up the civil libertarians, and decrease the premiums responsible people have to pay (or at least slow down their growth). Any legal objections? Anybody out there with the pull to support this? -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076