Opinion: Healthcare bill -- morbidly obese? (Weigh here)

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By some accounts, it weighs 70 pounds. It is 1,990 pages long. It is 1 foot tall. And if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks she has the votes, the healthcare reform bill touted by President Obama should be on the House floor for a vote on Saturday.

You can read the entire bill here.

Or just watch Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart making fun of critics of the bill’s gargantuan size here.

-- Johanna Neuman

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