outhouseperilous comments on Medicaid is giving ICE access to data of 79M enrollees, including ethnicity

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

Straight answer:

Shitlibs had to add means testing to all social programs and had to collect data saying xyz group was underserved and also had a data fetish.

No of course this coukd never be abused; we made a law saying not to!

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[+] sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Exactly. You can't just go off of vibes or self-reporting.

It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it's not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

You dont need to collect fuvking data umless you're means testing everything.

If you just stop the class based rationing, you do not need to do that.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

And how did all that data collection do with mitigating racial bias? Most of my poc friends won't even go to a hospital consensually, before this shit went down.