Under Trump, Federal Agencies Are Collecting Massive Sets of Medical Records
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They Worked To Protect Public Health. Now They Want the Public鈥檚 Votes.
They鈥檙e known for touting pandemic precautions, Affordable Care Act plans, and testing for lead in schools. This year, some former public health officials are touting themselves 鈥 for governor or senator.
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Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records
The tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety is pressuring hospitals to turn over patient records from emergency room visits, including about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products.
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Trump鈥檚 Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records
The Office of Personnel Management said it will 鈥減seudonymize鈥 medical records it collects on more than 8 million people 鈥 federal workers and retirees, and their family members. Democrats and employee unions say the agency鈥檚 move is an overreach.
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RFK Jr. Seeks To Peek at Americans鈥 Medical Records for Clues on Autism and Vaccines
To collect and scrutinize millions of Americans鈥 health data, U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aims to work with state organizations that help health systems share medical records. In Nebraska, millions in federal dollars has flowed into one nonprofit cooperating with Kennedy鈥檚 project.
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Trump鈥檚 $50B Rural Health Bet Meets a Healthcare Desert in North Carolina
Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it鈥檚 not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina鈥檚 Martin County to reopen its only hospital.
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Kennedy Swaps Vaccine Rhetoric for Story Time but Can鈥檛 Quite Change the Subject
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Kennedy, Balancing MAHA and White House, Says He Won鈥檛 Run for President in 2028
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to address the interests of his MAHA supporters, who view him as their hope for the future, while being a good soldier in the eyes of the Trump White House, which has been stepping back from some of the movement鈥檚 core priorities.
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RFK Jr. Swaps Vaccine Talk for Healthy Foods and Reading to Tots in Push To Woo Voters
He tested robotic hands on a heart surgery patient and chewed on microgreens in Ohio, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn鈥檛 dodge questions about the Trump administration鈥檚 more controversial policies.
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Listen: A Federal Agency Is After Workers’ Health Data, and Critics Are Alarmed
The Trump administration is seeking unprecedented access to medical records of federal workers and retirees, and their families. The data could be used to implement cost-saving measures, but it would also give the administration access to reams of personal information. Legal experts and insurers say the pursuit is overbroad.
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Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers鈥 Health Data
After 51视频 Health News reported that the Trump administration is seeking federal workers鈥 medical records, Democratic lawmakers are insisting that the Office of Personnel Management drop its request.
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The Trump Administration Is Seeking Federal Workers鈥 Sensitive Medical Data.聽That鈥檚聽Raising Alarms.
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Trump鈥檚 Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers鈥 Medical Records
The administration is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.
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鈥楾hey Tricked Me鈥: A Father Was Chained After He Went to ICE To Reunite With His Kids
The administration has largely converted the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement into an arm of immigration enforcement, detaining children longer while helping immigration officers arrest their parents or other family members. One father was chained when he went to an ICE office to discuss being reunited with his son and daughter.
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Birth Control Skepticism, Teen Fertility Take Center Stage at Trump’s Women’s Health Summit
Amid falling birth rates and presidential approval numbers, the Department of Health and Human Services convened doctors, tech executives, and influencers to discuss women鈥檚 health. Panelists criticized reliance on birth control pills to treat health problems and encouraged doctors to talk with girls about whether they want to have babies.
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Republicans Fret Over RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Policies While MAHA Moms Stew
A top GOP pollster has said anti-vaccine policies could create risks for the Trump administration in the midterm elections. But backing away from those policies 鈥 and other initiatives that have been high on the Make America Healthy Again to-do list 鈥 threatens to upset a key voting bloc.
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This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job 鈥 And His Legacy
A year after Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, warily cast the vote ensuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 ascension to Health and Human Services secretary, his life鈥檚 work 鈥 in medicine and in politics 鈥 is unraveling.
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RFK Jr. Made Promises in Order To Become Health Secretary. He鈥檚 Broken Many of Them.
Before being confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation鈥檚 official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
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With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients
The Trump administration鈥檚 move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.
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Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can鈥檛 use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.
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