Slate provides some much needed perspective on the healthcare bill page count:
...major spending bills frequently run more than 1,000. This year's stimulus bill was 1,100 pages. The climate bill that the House passed in June was 1,200 pages. Bill Clinton's 1993 health care plan was famously 1,342 pages long. Budget bills can run even longer: In 2007, President Bush's ran to 1,482 pages.
If healthcare reform was just 15 pages -- or even 100 pages, the bill would probably suck. And in terms of reading it, the final House bill has been available online since July. If congressional Republicans and Blue Dogs are incapable of reading 1,000 pages by now, maybe "writing and creating laws" was a poor career choice.