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Obamacare code: 1CD9E978
Beheading legalized
It looks like this is another RWNJ conspiracy. When I searched on Google I found this story:
Relax. Obamacare won't bring beheadings to U.S.
December 26, 2013
A new rumor about Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, making its rounds on the internet is that the law will make beheading an official method of execution in the United States. The rumor, apparently has its origin in an article by Lorri Anderson on the Freedom Outpost on Nov. 18, 2013, about international medical codes. Conspiracy sites claim that a medical code for legal execution reveals that beheading and decapitation are coming to the United States. The Freedom Outpost is a conservative pseudo-news site that has articles on birtherism, nullification and other conspiracy theories.
Anderson's article refers to a medical code, ICD 9 E 978, that conspiracy theorists believe purports to list the legal methods of execution in the United States. The definition of the coding is found on CentralX.com under International Classification of Diseases and is as follows:
E978 Legal execution
All executions performed at the behest of the judiciary or ruling authority
[whether permanent or temporary] as:
asphyxiation by gas
beheading, decapitation (by guillotine)
capital punishment
electrocution
hanging
poisoning
shooting
other specified means
INJURY UNDETERMINED WHETHER ACCIDENTALLY OR PURPOSELY
INFLICTED
Anderson notes that the code is part of an international coding system, but doesnt seem to understand what the codes are for or how they are used. She seems to believe that, because the United States is using the coding system, all parts of the code will apply to patients in the United States and that is is being forced on American doctors by the Department of Homeland Security and UN.
More at http://www.examiner.com/article/relax-obamacare-won-t-bring-beheadings-to-u-s
Nothing surprises me in Wharton County, Texas.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,155 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,933 posts)Just got connected to the Internet so I don't have to go to the library.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)OPSEC, people. OPSEC!
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)What is this? The Bible?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)These people should be kept away from sharp objects, they are a danger to themselves.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)This is so loony, it made me laugh.
rurallib
(62,379 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)North of you in Richmond, Juanita Jean's place!
TexasTowelie
(111,933 posts)then let her eat cake!
MH1
(17,573 posts)Which, if I'm not mistaken, is still in use to apply the death penalty in some states.
Most conservatives SUPPORT the death penalty.
(not that THAT has anything to do with Obamacare anyway)
The stupid, it burns ...
TexasTowelie
(111,933 posts)Most conservative do support the death penalty; however, they are scared beyond belief of death panels. With those core beliefs, what the heck are juries???