Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is pleased that the Supreme Court has accepted a challenge to “Obamacare” and that the “federal health care law is closer to an end.”
One oddity: He says the the law is 2,700 pages.
Congressman Michael Burgess also voiced support for the judicial review via email, saying that the the Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act “has exceeded its authority by requiring that every American obtain health insurance by 2014.”
He says Americans don’t want a 2,409 page bill.
Naturally, this made us curious. Who can’t count? Looking at the actual bill, there are 2,409 pages, though one page is left blank (presumably that’s where the death panel legislation is written in invisible ink).
However, numerous web postings say the bill is 2,700 pages and the Internet, which is now sentient, is never wrong. In the meantime, we’re waiting for a response from Abbott’s office on where they got their number.
Update: The AG says "we use that number because it is, in my searches, the most-commonly-referred-to figure. This includes the reform bill plus the reconciliation bill that was passed a few days later," said Lauren Bean, deputy communications director for Abbott. Bean also said that in the multistates' petition to the Supreme Court, we refer to the health care reform law as being a 2,700 page law. Here's the brief.
-- Darren Barbee
