I bet it’s more like $4 million per…

(Via the Drudge Report)

After all the ifs, ands, buts and screw yous are counted.

The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word.

I like this part the best:

And for those who cry “read the bill,” beware. There are plenty of paragraphs like this one:

“(a) Outpatient Hospitals – (1) In General – Section 1833(t)(3)(C)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395(t)(3)(C)(iv)) is amended – (A) in the first sentence – (i) by inserting “(which is subject to the productivity adjustment described in subclause (II) of such section)” after “1886(b)(3)(B)(iii); and (ii) by inserting “(but not below 0)” after “reduced”; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting “and which is subject, beginning with 2010 to the productivity adjustment described in section 1886(b)(3)(B)(iii)(II)”.

I don’t know what to think about a system that puts out gibberish like that and calls it “law”. Perhaps we really do need to let the rotten edifice that the USA is rapidly becoming collapse. Maybe then we could pick up the good parts, sweep up (and out) the trash and have a fresh start.