The Affordable Care Act (regardless of whether you are a fan or not) was between 900 and 1000 pages long and was definitely rushed through Congress. (FWIW – I am an independent voter – and I have mixed feelings about the ACA and most other political issues.) I have heard through one very reliable source that it was barely proofread before being put to a vote. There is no way that the Act itself could be internally consistent. The usual bandaid for poorly written laws is a set of gap filler regulations (which don’t get voted on – but do get litigated to death). My understanding is that the regs for the ACA are over 20,000 pages long. Could anyone really know what the rules are? Do we have a law on the books that is not understood, in its totality, by even one person?
Personally, I don’t want the courts figuring out what the legislators were too busy to do. They are supposed to be referees – not rule makers.
