"To cover its $28 million annual budget, the District's exchange would have to levy a whopping 17 percent tax on every health plan sold on its Web site. As an alternative, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) on [May 6] proposed and the council unanimously endorsed legislation granting the District's exchange board broad new power to tax any health-related insurance product sold in the city -- regardless of whether it's offered on the exchange."  MORE >>