Obamacare how many pages

That said, the Affordable Care Act ACA was larger than most bills to begin with, but considering the scope of healthcare reform, this is understandable. It was for this reason that a lot of confusion surrounded the contents of the ACA at the time it became a law.

Even today, there are still arguments about what should and should not be included in Obamacare, with some debates reaching as high as the Supreme Court. Overall, there has been a hesitancy to take the time to read and understand the law in its entirety. The result was a lot of misinformation swirling around, both before the passage of Obamacare and in the weeks and months following the enactment of the law.

The good news is that healthcare. With pages upon pages of explanatory content on their website, Americans can get answers to nearly any question simply by searching.

However, the passage of a law is not the final word on the matter. In the years since Obamacare took effect, the government has issued further regulations pertaining to the law. The ACA may only be 2, pages, but when you start to add in the regulations related to this law, the number of pages becomes astronomical.

In the case of the health-care law, businesses actually have been seeking detailed regulations so they know exactly what to expect.

And using the same methods used by the McConnell team, we found tens of thousands of pages of regulations for Medicare Advantage and the prescription drug plan Medicare Part D , which were pushed by Republicans. The larger point is this: Health insurance is a complicated business.

Always has been, always will be Fifty states with hundreds of companies offering thousands of different policies to millions of people adds up to a buttload of paperwork and data, so any law relating to all of that is going to be inherently lengthy View the discussion thread.

Updated: I don't want to hear one more "Obamacare is 2, pages long!! Government Printing Office website. Some have pegged the law to be much longer. Tom Giffey at the Leader-Telegram newspaper, wrote a great article in July of detailing how other interpretations have inflated the page count to over pages.

The fifth result in my Google search is from a site called policymic from March of ObamaCare regulations — pages in one day. Overall, there are nearly 20, pages — with many more to come. McConnell is talking about regulations, not just the law itself.

The law itself is a manageable read over a long weekend. The regulations are another story. How many pages of regulations are in the Affordable Care Act?

Show Caption. Hide Caption. How many pages of regulations are there in the Affordable Care Act? When counting the number of pages of regulations in Obamacare, are there hundreds?