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JUST IN: Trump demands access to deeply personal medical records from more than 24 million Americans. It’s not only an unprecedented violation of privacy, it’s creepy.
JUST IN: Trump demands access to deeply personal medical records from more than 24 million Americans. It’s not only an unprecedented violation of privacy, it’s creepy.
Bizzarely, Trump is quietly moving to build a database of highly sensitive health information covering millions of federal workers, retired members of Congress, mail carriers, and their families — information Trump can use against them.
A quiet Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposal would force 65 insurers to send monthly reports with identifiable medical data, including pharmacy claims, medical claims, provider data, and possibly even treatment details.
Experts are alarmed because it looks broad, vague, and dangerous.
Sharona Hoffman, a health law professor and ethicist at Case Western Reserve University, warned: They are going to get very, very detailed and granular data about everything that happens. The concern here is the more information they have, they could use it to discipline or target people who are not cooperating politically.
That fear is not abstract. This is the same administration that has already pushed legal boundaries with sensitive tax and health data, while workers report retaliation, purges, and ideological targeting.
And this is OPM, the same agency that exposed about 22 million personal records in the massive 2015 breach. Now they want even more.
This should OUTRAGE every MAGA American who relentlessly complains about government overreach. It should outrage EVERY American.
