October 30, 2009 /

$2.24 Million Per Word – OMG!

The right is on an uproar over the size of the health care bill and the Politico is following suit: 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. . Wow […]

The right is on an uproar over the size of the health care bill and the Politico is following suit:

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. .

Wow those are some expensive words, but not as bad as $425.9 million per word. That would come from the authorization for the Iraq war (pdf document), which has cost over $925 billion and clocks in at 2,174 words.

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