11,588,500 Words: Obamacare Regs 30x as Long as Law

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The first words of the constitution after the preamble are "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the united states". That mean bureaucrats cannot write laws - but they do it all the time.

11,588,500 Words: Obamacare Regs 30x as Long as Law | CNS News

October 14, 2013 - 4:02 PM

(CNSNews.com) -- Bureaucracies in the Obama Administration have thus far published approximately 11,588,500 words of final Obamacare regulations, while there are only 381,517 words in the Obamacare law itself.

That means unelected federal officials have now written 30 words of regulations for each word in the law.

What is commonly known as the Obamacare law includes both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA). Since these bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010, various agencies in the administration have published 109 final regulations spelling out how they are to be implemented.

These 109 final regulations account for a combined 10,535 pages in the Federal Register, where the government officially published them.