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Originally Posted by gspong
Sounds to me like helmets increase health care costs. Without a helmet, frequently all the medical care required is a ride to the morgue, keeping costs down.
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Total costs are the same, it's just that if you include the dead riders then the average goes down. If you have extra costs of ~$600,000 w/ 100 helmetless riders that make it and exclude 100 others that die at the scene then that's $6,000 per rider for a total of $600,000. If you include the riders who die then then it drives down the average to $3,000 but with 200 people the net cost is still $600,000. Either way your net cost is still going to be your net cost, it's just the average that drops if you include the riders who were DOA.