On the exchanges, members and staff members get an employer (i.e., taxpayer) contribution of 72 percent for their premiums. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there about where members receive their health insurance. Many people in our District, and across the U.S., think that members are on the federal health program, when instead they purchase their health care through the D.C. health exchange,” Green said. But it’s not accurate that members and staff members “go into the D.C. exchange and we personally have to pay for 100 percent of it. Mullin, however, went too far by claiming that members and staffers pay 100 percent of their insurance from the D.C. exchanges.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2017 07:07 UTC