President Donald Trumps administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.
An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns.
Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive.
The dataset includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., all of which allow non-U.S. citizens to enroll in Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars. CMS transferred the information just as the Trump administration was ramping up its enforcement efforts in Southern California.
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22The result is going to be the United States getting sued for a few million HIPPA violations.
The result of this will be sick and injured people eschewing medical care for fear of it being used against them.
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!I dont know. At some point in the past, we as a culture decided that this grotesque, bloviating caricature of a human being is just allowed to do whatever he wants, take whatever he wants, r*** whoever he wants, and nobody will say anything about it.
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!
That magical letter R
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!Turns out those rules we made up can be easily broken! Also you actually can accomplish things very quickly, faster then the courts can decide if what you did was illegal. Even crazier, after the courts tell you to not do something you can just ignore them and face no consequences!
I dont know. At some point in the past, we as a culture decided that this grotesque, bloviating caricature of a human being is just allowed to do whatever he wants, take whatever he wants, r*** whoever he wants, and nobody will say anything about it.It's like they're playing Legality Rope-a-Dope but they forgot that you're supposed to start fighting back eventually.
That magical letter RWell yes but also people hate immigrants basically worldwide
That magical letter R
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!the people in positions to stop him are not stopping him, because they are beholden to him since they are also MAGA
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!
Because no one in the Republican Party has the guts to stand up to him.And the Republican party as a whole is as pathological as Trump.
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!a lot of reasons but most of the them tie into "haha funny line go brrrrrr"
Also you actually can accomplish things very quickly, faster then the courts can decide if what you did was illegal. Even crazier, after the courts tell you to not do something you can just ignore them and face no consequences!
How the fuck does he get away with everything?!