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In 1969 I was stationed at Pleiku AB, in Vietnam.\u00a0 The first day I got there the base was hit with several rockets and mortars as the result of an attack by the Viet Cong.\u00a0 The first notice of an attack was often the sound of a rocket exploding.\u00a0 Instantly the more experienced veterans would shout \u201cincoming<\/strong>.\u201d to make sure everyone knew we were under attack.\u00a0 The reason was that Pleiku was also close to an Army base that fired artillery.\u00a0 It was really important to understand the difference between \u201coutgoing<\/strong>\u201d, or shells fired at the other guys, and \u201cincoming<\/strong>\u201d shells aimed at us.<\/p>\n

Health insurance costs are already skyrocketing.\u00a0 For small business owners the cost of health insurance is increasing by a minimum of 15% and in some cases as much as 80%.\u00a0 We are soon going to see some significant fall out from these increases.\u00a0 The Obama administration will try to use this as evidence of the need for health care reform.\u00a0 If they are successful in convincing people of that, he may just succeed in transforming this country.<\/p>\n

The major reason for the increase in cost of private or employer sponsored health care is current government mandates.\u00a0 Doctors and hospitals are already required to treat Medicare patients for fees they consider to be inadequate.\u00a0 They are also required to treat uninsured people with chronic illness without any reimbursement at all.\u00a0 As a result, doctors and hospitals must increase the costs they charge to insurance companies.\u00a0 This situation has been made even worse by the Obama administration deciding that insurance companies can no longer exclude pre-existing conditions.\u00a0 While we would all like to see coverage available for people with pre-existing conditions, the reality is that someone must pay for that.\u00a0 Today, it is the insurance company, but apparently Obama thinks they can just absorb this with their outrageous 3% profit margin.<\/p>\n

We must communicate the truth to people, or there is a significant chance that health care reform will gain undeserved support from the American people.\u00a0 If people believe the insurance industry is the problem, as Obama claims, then they will support the health care reform bill.\u00a0 But if they understand the real cause, which is poorly designed and implemented government mandates, then we can stop this mad rush to socialized medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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