Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports:
California and 19 other states’ attorneys general are suing the Trump administration to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ from allegedly disclosing Medicaid beneficiaries’ personal health information to the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced the lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of upending “longstanding privacy protections with its decision to illegally share sensitive, personal health data with ICE” as part of President Trump’s “anti-immigration” campaign.
Since Congress enacted the Medicaid Act 70 years ago, “federal law, policy and practice has been clear: The personal healthcare data collected about beneficiaries of the program is confidential, to be shared only in certain narrow circumstances that benefit public health and the integrity of the Medicaid program itself,” Bonta said.
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