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**** Rand Paul’s Hilarious — Yet Revealing — Obamacare Explanation: Guess What New Injury Codes Are Included**** May. 28, 2013 9:25am Becket Adams<http://www.theblaze.com/author/becket-adams/> **** **** [image: Rand Paul Rips Into Obamacare Diagnostics Mandate: Codes for Injuries Sustained from Macaws, Turtles, & Burning Water Skis?]<http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/130124_rand_paul_ap_605-600x328.jpg> **** Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (AP)**** Obamacare will require doctors to use roughly 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes to inform the federal government of injuries sustained by Americans, so says Kentucky Senator Rand Paul<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331716/Rand-Paul-Obamacare-include-medical-diagnostic-codes-injuries-sustained-turtle-walking-lamppost-injuries-sustained-burning-water-skis.html> .**** The new codes, Sen. Paul explained, include classifications for “injuries sustained from a turtle,” “walking into a lamppost” and “injuries sustained from burning water skis.”**** “Your government just wants to take care of you,” he added, criticizing the new law’s 9,000-plus pages of new regulations. “They don’t think you’re smart enough to make these decisions.”**** Physicians currently have about 18,000 medical diagnostic codes to choose from to help them inform insurers of their patients’ ailments. However, as Paul (himself a physician) notes, Obamacare includes a mandate for 140,000 of those codes — and some of them sound downright ridiculous.**** “Included among these codes,” the senator continued, “will be 312 new codes for injuries from animals; 72 new codes for injuries just from birds; 9 new codes for ‘injuries from the macaw.”‘**** “The macaw?” he asked. “I’ve asked physicians all over the country, ‘Have you ever seen an injury from a macaw?”‘**** He continued, adding that he had found “two new injury codes under Obamacare for ‘injuries sustained from a turtle.”‘**** “Now, you might say, ‘Well, turtles are dangerous’ — but why do you have to have two codes?” he asked. “Your doctor has to inform the government whether you’ve been struck by a turtle or bitten by a turtle.”**** He added: “There is a new code for … walking into a lamppost. There’s also a code for ‘walking into a lamppost, subsequent encounter.’”**** “I guess that’s if you don’t learn,” he added. “[T]here is [also] a code … for ‘injuries sustained from burning water skis.”‘**** Though the Republican senator delivered his speech earlier this month to the Iowa Republican Party, his Obamacare remarks have only recently gained traction online:**** –see video here**** http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/28/rand-pauls-hilarious-obamacare-explanation-it-will-require-diagnostic-codes-for-injuries-sustained-from-macaws-turtles-burning-water-skis/ **** **** -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
