Obamacare bill: Now 2,000 pages long, give or take a few

Memo to Republicans: You can stop talking about the Democrats’ thousand-page health care bill. You can start talking about the Democrats’ two-thousand page health care bill. Breaking previous records in the health care sweepstakes, the new House bill introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi this morning is 1,990 pages long.

UPDATE 1: The conservative Americans for Tax Reform has released an instant word-count analysis of the bill. According to ATR, the word “tax” appears 87 times in the legislation. “Taxable” appears 62 times, “fee” appears 59 times, and “penalty” appears 113 times. The word “shall” appears 3,424 times.