Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!rjb
From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (rjb)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Airbags, blowhards, and straw men strike again.
Message-ID: <2063@akgua.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 17:42:21 EST
Article-I.D.: akgua.2063
Posted: Wed Jan 22 17:42:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jan-86 22:37:47 EST
References: <4847@alice.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta
Lines: 19


Why does this problem always boil down to Government Action
or do nothing ?  Where are our friends the Insurance companies
when we need them ? 

How about seat belt user car insurance rates and non-user rates ?
Non-users would have a higher premium and in the case of liars
(those who claim to wear the belt but don't) I think we can determine
most of the time after the wreck who did and didn't.  The liars would
be penalized (by an appropriate clause in their policy) so as not
to receive full benefits.

There are non-drinkers and non-smokers life insurance rates, why can't
 we make this valid discrimination about the use of safety equipment
and keep the Federales out of this one altogether ?

Idealistically yours

Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}