Friday, July 18, 2025

Privacy Betrayal: ICE Given Access to Medicaid Data

Medicaid officials have reportedly made an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to allow agents to examine a database of Americans' personal information " including home addresses, social security numbers and ethnicities. The data sharing agreement will allow Ice to find "the location of aliens", according to an agreement obtained by the Associated Press. Medicaid is the nation's single largest health insurer, providing coverage for 79 million low-income, disabled and elderly people

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"This is about the weaponization of data, full stop," said Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic US representative from Washington state, who has worked extensively on US healthcare, in a statement on social media.

"Trump said he would go after the worst of the worst' immigrants, yet now is giving ICE EVERYONE's Medicaid data, even as ICE targets US citizens. Oh, and undocumented immigrants can't even enroll in Medicaid.

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"Primero vinieron ... "

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-18 05:16 AM

Republicans sure do love them some Big Brother.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-18 09:58 AM

Government sharing government information with government.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-18 01:11 PM

Government sharing government information with government.
#3 | Posted by BellRinger

Republicans fully trust government now.
Republicans finally learned to love Big Brother.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-18 01:48 PM

"This is about the weaponization of data, full stop"

Republicans support the weaponization of anything that the government can use to send people to camps.

Who is sending people to camps?

Republicans are sending people to camps.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-18 01:51 PM

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