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0 pointsDylan168073y ago0 comments

I'm not sure how the heck you jumped from "drive motorcycles" to "drive cars".

Driving cars would be minor and apply to almost everyone, so it would mostly cancel out and be negligible. Really it would be a slight discount for taking transit, and that seems... fine to me.

And those other ones aren't even notable risk factors.

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chefandy3y ago· 2 in thread

Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure. Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common.

Dylan16807OP3y ago

> Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure.

Yeah, so almost everyone.

> Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common.

Car deaths are about 1% of deaths. Heart disease and cancer are each around 15x as likely.

Even if it's high on the danger scale, I don't think it would be a very big factor in health care costs.

chefandy3y ago

The US is a big place but most people live in cities. Few car accidents are fatal.

CDC: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S.1, with over 100 people dying every day. 2 More than 2.5 million drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2015.1 The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion."

American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.

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