When we read that kind of writing in government regulations, we call it bureaucratese…” Last week at work I was discussing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a co-worker. We were both interested it in its policies and implications since it might become history. As we searched scoured the Internet, we finally found a PDF of the document. To our surprise, it was over nine hundred pages. The shortest summary that we found of the ACA was approximately eleven pages. When a document is as long as Moby Dick, it is no wonder that the average American will not a have a thorough understanding of its content. This has definitely proven, at least to me, that clear and concise writing is necessary both for government officials and the general public if ideas are going to be shared