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Re:US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race da... by deferredgrant on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:56PM (#48013255)
This is especially bad for public services because trust is already fragile. People should not have to worry that applying for healthcare also enrolls them in a tracking graph.
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Re:US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race da... by hyperadvanced on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:26PM (#48013729)
Is it that incomprehensible that you might want to limit healthcare offerings to lawful residents only, or that the government might track metadata about how services are doing so, regardless of how they choose to take action on it?
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