Posted on 10/16/2014 7:27:29 PM PDT by george76
Documents Show Congress Submitted False Information to Participate in Exchange.
Though restricted by law to small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, D.C. Exchange allows Congress to provide health insurance to 12,359 members of Congress, staffers, spouses, and dependents.
Judicial Watch today filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority to stop Congress from participating in D.C.’s “Small Business Exchange.” At least 12,359 members of Congress, congressional staffers, and their spouses and dependents currently purchase health insurance in D.C.’s “Small Business Exchange” even though Congress far exceeds D.C. law’s 50-employee limit for participating in the exchange.
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Judicial Watch asks the court, on behalf of Mr. Vining, to: “(a) declare the House and the Senate’s participation in the Small Business Exchange to be unlawful; (b) enjoin Defendants from continuing to allow the House and the Senate to participate in the Small Business Exchange, or at a minimum, from expending further taxpayer funds on the House and Senate’s participation in the Small Business Exchange; (c) issue a writ of mandamus ordering Defendant Kofman to deny the House and the Senate further participation in the Small Business Exchange . . .”
“The documents we obtained from the D.C. Health Exchange show that every member of Congress who has enrolled in Obamacare has obtained their insurance coverage (and any taxpayer subsidies) through fraud. The District of Columbia government should not be a party to this fraud and should stop allowing Congress to participate in an exchange created for small D.C. businesses,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “District taxpayers will be surprised and outraged to learn that local tax dollars are helping further this fraud. Mr. Vining wants the courts to stop this lawlessness as soon as possible.”
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My Dear Old Ma has stopped charity contributions to the RNC but continues giving to Judicial Watch.
They do good works.
(a government official which need not be named)
Best comment: “Did DC use Common Core to come to the conclusion 12,359 is less than 50?”
Congress does not need this health plan, there is already fine government hospitals in every State. It’s called the VA.
If it’s good enough for those who risk their life for the security of this country, it must be good enough for those who risk nothing to run it.
“We follow the law whenever we can” “””
Here in Nevada, we have a Hispanic woman, LUCY FLORES, running for Lt. Governor.
She has been in the Nevada Assembly. She was tried & convicted for campaign finance abuse.
She was found to have mis-used at least $8550 in prior campaign money without properly reporting the funds—source & disposition.
Her defense?
“I don’t think it is FAIR to have to report EVERY PENNY”.
Do I have to ad that this person is a Democrat????
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