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How many pages is health care bill?

By Matthew Whittle
Published in News on August 6, 2009 1:49 PM

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Frank Drohan examines the stack of paper -- two reams, 1,018 pages -- that represents America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, which is the Democrats' health care reform proposal.

Two reams of paper. One thousand and eighteen pages. Twelve thousand, two hundred and sixteen lines of text. And that's not even the final version. For 51 minutes Frank Drohan listened to his printer spit out pages, and at...

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