Mad_Cabbie
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Don't worry if you have to go see a doctor for the burn.................
I'm sure that Obamacare has created a code for the doctors to use if attacked by a pizza.
LOL
Injury Classifications for Turtle Bites & Burning Water Skis? Here?s Rand Paul?s Hilarious Obamacare Rant | Video | TheBlaze.com
Physicians currently have about 18,000 medical diagnostic codes, called ICD-9, to choose from to help them inform insurers of their patients ailments. But according to Paul (himself a physician), Obamacare will require physicians to adopt roughly 122,000 new 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. Ive 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 youve been struck by a turtle or bitten by a turtle.
He added: There is a new code for walking into a lamppost. Theres also a code for walking into a lamppost, subsequent encounter.
I guess thats if you dont learn, he added. [T]here is [also] a code for injuries sustained from burning water skis.
I like!!! Obamacare will fix this! Maybe I can get lypo while I'm there?!?