[Honu]

Its not about health insurance , its about catastrophic accident insurance ,its about the private property owner being held responsible for what happens on their property.
Granted nobody is forced to be a jockey but without them the races might be a little harder to handicap if you just let the horses run around freely.
I rode races for 13 years and was never a member of the jocks Guild, I got called a scab because I chose to ride when they all went on strike in 1990-91 because I thought it was unfair to shut down the races and cost other people their livelyhoods.
If a rider who is not a Guild member rides at a place like say Great Lakes Downs where the horses are cheap and so are the purses how in the world would they be able to afford an adequate catastrophic insurance policy?
Racetracks are leaveing themselves along with horse owners and trainers, wide open for lawsuits just so people can get the medical treatment they need when it could all be prevented by having adequate insurance in place.
As I said at the top of this post its not about medical health insurance its about accident insurance , I have no medical health insurance and Im not asking anybody for any but if I chose to go back to riding tommorrow I would want to be sure that if I got hurt while on the job that my medical bills would be covered.