"Then allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines."

While this idea makes sense, there are a couple things (at least) I wonder about regarding implementation:

First, will simply "allowing" competition be sufficient to ensure that we have some, along with the expected lowering of insurance costs? Will insurance companies, used to operating in the environments they're currently in, necessarily jump at the requirement to compete in the market place?

Second, to what extent is competition in the health insurance market regulated or distorted by individual state governments? How can this distortion be alleviated in such a way as to avoid interfering with state-level affairs?

Please don't take any of this as snarkiness; it's just that I suspect that while plenty of insurers would love to market their products nation-wide, there are others who are perfectly happy with things the way they are. All of them have friends in the legislatures and the Congress.

Amy, repeating misleading information hurts your credibility. Yes, the bill was 2,700 pages long due to the standard markup used for congressional bills. A much more accurate metric for the length of the bill is the word count. The ACA contained fewer words than Sarah Palin's memoir. That's still a long piece of legislation, but it's analagous in length to a short novel, not a telephone directory.

repeating misleading information hurts your credibility.

But it was true, correct?

Yes, the bill was 2,700 pages long

OK, so Amy's right. How many people read it cover to cover, then?

due to the standard markup used for congressional bills.

So to read it and know what it says it's... how many pages?

A much more accurate metric for the length of the bill is the word count.

Why is that better than length?

The ACA contained fewer words than Sarah Palin's memoir.

Does Sarah Palin's book have any binding legal authority over me or anyone else?

That's still a long piece of legislation, but it's analagous in length to a short novel, not a telephone directory.

So if you've read Sarah's book - what did she have to say about Moose in town?

I'm sorry, but that's incorrect, I'm going to have to fine you.

But, if you want to talk about misleading, the real misleading is that the ACA is only "2700 pages".

It defines over 30 sub-groups to, and assigns work and definitions and requirements and fees and penalties to be developed by them - later - which means that each one of THOSE is going to produce how many legally-binding requirements?

2700 is just the start, and soon, just like the tax law, there will be no single person who can tell you what the law is.

That's the real deception here.

Amy,

At the risk of sounding paranoid, the nature of Factual Interjections response strongly suggests that he or she is more than just a casual reader commenting. The juxtapositioning of the length of the legislation to the putative length of Sarah Palin's book strikes me as the sort of thing a professional with the DNC might do. A very subtle tactic in trying to associate you in peoples minds with Sarah Palin, and therefore to be summarily dismissed as a crank.

I vaguely recall the Obama campaign starting a web site where people can report "erroneous" facts that have been posted or reported about Obama. I kind of wonder if you didn't get reported and received a visit, so to speak, from one the professionals from the Obama campaign.

"the bill was 2,700 pages long due to the standard markup used for congressional bills. A much more accurate metric for the length of the bill is the word count. The ACA contained fewer words than Sarah Palin's memoir. "

WHo cares? What does comparing it to ANY book have to do with anything? It being shorter or longer than Game of Thrones effects it's viability as a law how? Talk about the most stupid and inane comment I've ever read!