Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on Wednesday mocked a medical coding system that will soon require doctors to use a giant codebook that includes more than 140,000 kinds of injuries and illnesses, including nine separate ways to be injured by a turkey and three ways to be injured by a lamppost.
“It’s red tape, it’s bureaucracy, and this is what happens when clueless big government here in Washington starts telling people out in the workplace, doctors and patients, what they must do and when government intrudes into our lives with more regulations,” Poe said on the House floor.
