Obamacare's 2,700 pages are too much for justices. by Byron York | Mar 29, 2012, 12:00 AM. During the long, painful debate that led to the passage of Obamacare, Republican lawmakers made a single request of their colleagues, the press and the public: Please read the 2,700-page bill. That request was mostly ignored, even by many of the members of Congress who voted for what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.