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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.legal
Subject: Seat Belts
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 17:51:33 EDT
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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)
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