Comprehensive Health Care and Motor-Vehicle Safety

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Motor-vehicle accidents in Massachusetts last year claimed on the order of 31,000 years of potential life1 (Table 1), second for that dubious distinction only to ischemic heart disease. Accidents in general rank fourth among major causes of death in Massachusetts1 and the United States,2 and motor-vehicle accidents are the number-one killer in the nation of people between the ages of five and 44,2 usually healthy people entering their most productive years (Table 2).In 1974 alone, highway accidents cost the Commonwealth's residents approximately $200 million in lost wages, medical expenses, insurance administration costs, and property damage.2 About 150 insurance carriers . . .

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