If we do not open up the Medicare database right now, it is going to be hard to empower consumers.
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Wyden warns that lack of Medicare data access hinders consumer empowerment in healthcare.
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More importantly, independent privacy and security oversight is not an optional expense to be cut when it becomes inconvenient.
Each person whose information was inappropriately disclosed is entitled to know what happened to it, and Congress is entitled to know how a federal agency came to violate the same court order three times in six months.
I’m heading home this weekend to meet with Oregonians fearing in real time for their lives and livelihoods because of wildfires threatening communities and spreading smoke statewide.
This whole mess came out in a court hearing last week where, not only did the judge criticize the government’s attorneys, the government itself acknowledged its numerous errors and mistakes before eventually withdrawing the subpoenas.





