Do you think Motorcycles riders should be forced by law to wear helmets in all 50 states?

I would like to see them paying for extended coverage from their insurance. For example, I am a smoker so I have to pay higher premium for my health and life insurances. I have absolutely no problem with that because that's my choice. By the same token, I don't want to have to pay for someone's choice if his/her coverage is insufficient.

I don't think there are a whole lot of systems that are 100% foolproof but police report would be a good indication. I do realize the death rate would be much higher in helmetless accidents but there are other emotional issues involved as well.

The US National Highway Transportation Administration (NHTSA), one of the most influential government agencies when it comes to public safety on roadways, has stated that current school buses are among the safest forms of transportation available. After studying the results of crashes involving these buses, the NHTSA stated that there was no compelling reason to believe the use of seatbelts should be federally mandated. Most accidents were either frontal or rear collisions, which means that passengers were protected by a safety feature called compartmentalization.

I knew an engineer of school buses for years.  This is basically what he said.  Always traveling the country for court.  Always said school buses were ultra safe.  Never looked it up.  But assumed he was right,  but guess in his interest to say so.

I'd love to see the research showing that people involved in a motorcycle accident while wearing a helmet cost more than people involved in an accident while not wearing a helmet.

For more than 40 years, Michigan required all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. State legislators changed the law last year so that only riders younger than 21 must wear helmets. The average insurance payment on a motorcycle injury claim was $5,410 in the two years before the law was changed, and $7,257 after it was changed — an increase of 34 percent, the study by the Highway Loss Data Institute found.

"The cost per injury claim is significantly higher after the law changed than before, which is consistent with other research that shows riding without a helmet leads to more head injuries," David Zuby, chief research officer for the data institute and an affiliated organization, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said.