Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2g!scott From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers Subject: Re: Auto Insurance ($$$) Message-ID: <642@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 08:44:14 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.642 Posted: Tue Sep 24 08:44:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:31:29 EDT References: <632@grkermi.UUCP> Organization: The Finish Line Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.auto:8265 net.consumers:3032 >In 1977, Massachusetts became one of the first states to outlaw discrimination >in insurance rates due to age, sex, and/or marital status. (At that time I >was 24, male, single, clean driving record, and driving a 4-year-old Japanese >station wagon. My rates dropped from $889 a year to $332... by extrapolation, >your $800 would have been $2100 under the "free market"!) My, my, my! Aren't YOU happy! But what about the 35-year-old woman, married, clean driving record, with an 8-year-old dodge whose rates went up from $100 to $300? She's subsidizing you, who are a higher risk. Not allowing insurance companies to tie premiums to risk is a good way to drive up rates for everyone but the high risk cases. And "drive" several companies out of business. Scott J. Berry