Motorcycle Policy and the Public Interest: A Recommendation for a New Type of Partial Motorcycle Helmet Law.

Kurt B Nolte Colleen Healy Clifford M Rees David Sklar

J Law Med Ethics

Kurt B. Nolte, M.D., is the Chief Medical Investigator and a Professor of Pathology and Radiology at the Office of the Medical Investigator at University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, NM. Colleen Healy, J.D., is a Staff Attorney, Mid-States Region, for the Network for Public Health Law at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI. Clifford M. Rees, J.D., is the Practice Director, Western Region, for the Network for Public Health Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in Santa Fe, NM. David Sklar, M.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, NM.

Published: March 2017

Motorcycle helmet laws are perceived to infringe upon individual rights even though they reduce mortality and health care costs. We describe proposed helmet legislation that protects individual rights and provides incentives for helmet use through a differential motorcycle registration fee that requires higher fees for those who wish to ride without a helmet.

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