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Then the House's health care bill is the epitome of insanity:

The 1,990-page health-care bill in the House is one of the weightiest pieces of legislation on Capitol Hill.
A single-sided copy of it printed by The Wall Street Journal weighed 19.6 pounds, and stood 8.25 inches tall.

Has anyone actually read the whole bill?

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