Public Interest Group Sues D.C. Obamacare Exchange For Letting Congress Apply For Coverage

The conservative public interest group Judicial Watch filed a taxpayer lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority provided Obamacare small business coverage to 12,359 employees of Congress, despite D.C. Exchange Act restrictions limiting such coverage to businesses with 50 or fewer employees.

The lawsuit, filed in D.C. Superior Court, contends that "both the House and the Senate falsely claimed that they each employ only 45 full-time employees."

The suit references official application documents that it says were filed by the House and Senate with the D.C. Exchange Authority and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The Judicial Watch suit contends the application documents also falsely state the employer type category for the House and Senate as "local/state government."

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