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TexasTowelie

(111,933 posts)
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 08:48 PM Apr 2014

I saw this card in the bin at the library

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 doesn’t 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.

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I saw this card in the bin at the library (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2014 OP
The right wing propaganda machine ...what a desperate bunch SummerSnow Apr 2014 #1
Are you back in Wharton county? TexasProgresive Apr 2014 #2
Yes. TexasTowelie Apr 2014 #9
Okay, which one of you loose-lipped ^&*#$&s leaked Operation Queen of Hearts? pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #3
BEHEADINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEFF9K Apr 2014 #4
and the Dr has to scream "BENGHAZI!!!!" when he does it too. NightWatcher Apr 2014 #5
Is Obamacare going to supply the guillotines? octoberlib Apr 2014 #6
they will be built by Diebold rurallib Apr 2014 #7
Lorri needs to visit that most dangerous hair salon just Ilsa Apr 2014 #8
A snip here, a snip there... TexasTowelie Apr 2014 #10
Because, you know, beheadings are so terribly inhumane, compared with electrocution. MH1 Apr 2014 #11
You are correct. TexasTowelie Apr 2014 #12

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
5. and the Dr has to scream "BENGHAZI!!!!" when he does it too.
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 09:15 PM
Apr 2014

These people should be kept away from sharp objects, they are a danger to themselves.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
8. Lorri needs to visit that most dangerous hair salon just
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 10:32 PM
Apr 2014

North of you in Richmond, Juanita Jean's place!

MH1

(17,573 posts)
11. Because, you know, beheadings are so terribly inhumane, compared with electrocution.
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 04:33 PM
Apr 2014

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)
12. You are correct.
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 04:43 PM
Apr 2014

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???

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