Russell Vought was Heinrich Himmler in previous life:
In January 1927, Himmler was appointed deputy propaganda chief.
In December 2020, knowing Trump lost, Vought became chief architect of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's concocted design for fascism in the United States.
ultimately this data will be passed to ICE looking for illegals getting medicare (which don't exist) and to compare to state voting records if/when they extort them.
1 thing that’s scary about this is it seems like it would take longer and more trouble for them to build this kind of a database for how long they have left to be in office. I know governments take on these kinds of projects all the time but I get the sense these guys aren’t planning on leaving
Is this yet another Russ Vought initiative ? He worked with DOGE to sell off our data and now is moving to disenfranchise federal employee’s healthcare. Probably somewhere in is disgustingly Project 2025 small print.
Like any authoritarian, the Reps do not believe that laws are real. They believe that laws are weapons used to persecute your enemies, and think that their enemies' reluctance to return the favour is a sign of weakness.
I stopped going to the VA for exactly this reason. Every time I go in they ask the old “how may pregnancies and how may live births”. Women’s health appointments can easily gauge if I’m fertile or not. And DOGE got access to most of the systems. It’s crazy how little I trust them now.
Little known fact: under HIPAA, patients have the right to request restrictions on the disclosure of their PHI if they pay for services entirely out of pocket. This means their provider must honor their request not to bill their insurance and keep their information private from health plans.
When I worked for a hospital we paid a 3rd party to anonymize data re employees. We self-insured so we had all the claims data but knew breaching that wall was highly unethical- even if not for nefarious purposes!
With all that and we can’t see Trump’s brain scan/MRI to confirm what everyone knows he has. I have seen an MRI showing white matter disease (flares) which can indicate vascular dementia.
I stopped watching The Handmaids Tale when I began perceiving parts of it as possible in the near future. It was too much, too real in what was already taking place.