20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials
The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Bonta alleged Tuesday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California. Illinois, Washington state, and Washington, D.C., to the Department of Homeland Security. The Associated Press first reported on it last month. Now, California and 19 other states’ attorneys general have sued over the move. All of those states allow non-U.S. citizens to enroll in Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars.
