🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <aj2inc$1toq$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
 jor@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Jason O'Rourke) wrote:

> Joseph Lovell  <subdjoe@sonic.net> wrote:
> ><sigh> I know that I'm not supposed to feed the trolls.
> 
> me, too, but you left little choice.
> 
> >If he were truely concerned about the uncompensated costs in ER/Trauma
> >centers he would push of a $1.00/gallon tax on gasoline and a couple of
> >hundred percent tax on bicycles (let's see, bicycles kill or injure
> >about 450,000 people in the US every year, CA has about 15% of the
> >population, so CA will have around 67k people, mostly children, killed
> >or injured every year by bicycles), as well and doing something about
> >all those uninsured people.
> 
> Bicycles represent about 1000 of the 40,000 vehicle accidents per year.
> They are even less of a concern than gunshot victims (most of whom either
> were suicidal, or ones we could do without).  
> 
> Put down the crack pipe.

According to the Centers  for Disease Control at

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/01news/sports.htm

there are 2.6 million emergency room cases per year at a cost of $500 
million from sports related injuries. 900,000 of these cases are cycling 
and basketball injuries.  According to the CDC: 

"Sports-related injuries are more likely than other injuries to be to 
the brain or skull and upper and lower extremities; more likely to be a 
fracture, strain or sprain; and more likely to have diagnostic and 
therapeutic services provided, especially orthopedic care."