{"id":36545,"date":"2013-05-28T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/coding-for-turtles.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:18:59","slug":"coding-for-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/coding-for-turtles.html","title":{"rendered":"Coding for Turtles!"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's something funny and ridiculous, and it has to do with medical care, so why wouldn't "Dr. Paul" use it to lambaste Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Problem is, it has nothing to do with Obamacare, and was actually mandated by the George W. Bush administration. \u00a0But, hey, don't let actual, y'know, facts<\/i> get in the way of a GOP speech soundbite and some coverage in that bastion of journalism, The Daily Mail.<\/i><\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jonathon Barton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, Rand.<\/p>\n

Do your homework.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Rand Paul Mocks Obamacare For \u2018Turtle Bite\u2019 Diagnostic Codes Ordered By The Bush Administration<\/a>
\n On Monday, several news outlets highlighted comments that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made to the Iowa Republican Party earlier this month in which he mocked an Obamacare provision for being burdensome and silly. Paul ridiculed the health law for forcing doctors to use 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes for describing Americans\u2019 injuries to the government, […]\n <\/p>\n

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It's something funny and ridiculous, and it has to do with medical care, so why wouldn't "Dr. Paul" use it to lambaste Obamacare. Problem is, it has nothing to do with Obamacare, and was actually mandated by the George W. Bush administration. \u00a0But, hey, don't let actual, y'know, facts get in the way of a … Continue reading “Coding for Turtles!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134,70,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care","category-health-science","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/the-government-and-first-class-health-care.html","url_meta":{"origin":36545,"position":0},"title":"The Government and “First-Class Health Care”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Jul-09 11:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of Jon Stewart, getting conservative pundit Bill Kristol to first admit the government can provide first-class care, as it does to our military ... but that the rest of the public doesn't deserve it. \u00a0 A few highlights, as cited by ThinkProgress: Why is government-run health care \u201cgood enough\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/how-do-we-reduce-health-care-spending.html","url_meta":{"origin":36545,"position":1},"title":"How do we reduce health care spending?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Jan-13 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, looking at how Canada spends less per person -- not person in the national health care system, but person in the country -- than we do. \u00a0And the reason is not because they have more \"free market reforms\" than we do. 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