Trump's Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans' Medical Records

[Nevilledog]

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-mar-a-lago-buddies-tried-to-get-the-va-to-sell-access-to-veterans-medical-records


Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators.

As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and personnel decisions for the federal government’s second-largest agency, despite lacking any experience in the U.S. government or military.

While previous reporting showed the trio had a hand in budgeting and contracting, their interest in turning patient data into a revenue stream was not previously known. The VA provides medical care to more than 9 million veterans at more than 1,000 facilities across the country.

“Patient data is, in my opinion, the most valuable assets [sic] the VA has,” a consultant said in a June 2017 email released Monday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. “It can be leveraged into hundreds of millions in revenue” by selling access to major companies, he said.

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[spanone]

1. the criminal-in-chief strikes again

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Can any health organization sell patient data?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. They tried to exert improper influence on the VA to implement a "hugely profitable" scheme

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I can never get this right about them.

Here in Florida, Republicans have been clawing away at the Public Records Law, filing one exception after the other to keep data out of the public domain; and then you hear about Republicans going for that very data for the benefit of profit.

What do those assholes stand for? Easy. They want to keep privileges to themselves, that they deny others.

[Champp]

6. The Republican Casino Sharpie called our troops "suckers and losers"

Big City Draft Dodging Dipshit and his lowlife partners in crime were going to pull the old Republican casino hustle on our sons and daughters in uniform, and have his corrupt Republican cronies sell our troops' data to the highest bidder. Suckit.

Republicans dodge service to America, dishonor our troops, and then try to profit off them. Typical. Sick and sad.

Republican lies. Republican grift. Republican corruption. That's all they know, all they do.

[Vinca]

7. I just read about this on another site and at the end of the article it said a judge dismissed

the first court case against these characters because they weren't an official advisory panel. That's kind of the point, isn't it? It seems Trump's buddies are coated in Teflon, too.

[BlueWavePsych]

8. Vets didn't forget ...

[Wounded Bear]

9. My capacity to be surprised at their venality is exhausted...

[Duppers]

11. Same here.

Not at all surprised but continue to be disgusted.