IFPTE Urges Congress to Block Trump Administration from Accessing Personal Medical Data of Federal Workers

IFPTE responded this week to efforts by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to unilaterally implement a rule forcing health insurers to disclose the individualized, personal medical information of current and former federal employees to the Trump Administration.  In asking both Congressional appropriators and authorizers to come together in a bipartisan way to prevent the Administration from accessing this data, IFPTE reinforced to lawmakers that, “Medical records invoke core cannons of personal, social, psychological, cultural, and religious privacy that are absolutely sacred to all Americans.” 

Read IFPTE’s letter to key Capitol Hill lawmakers here and join IFPTE’s member mobilization letter writing campaign here.