Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records

**Executive summary:** The article reports that OPM has proposed requiring 65 insurers covering over 8 million federal employees, retirees, and their families to supply monthly medical, pharmacy, encounter, and provider data—potentially including identifiable protected health information—prompting legal, privacy, and HIPAA-compliance concerns from experts and insurers; critics warn of inadequate justification, weak safeguards, and risks of misuse (including political targeting), while insurers and advocates urge de-identification or rejection of the broad data request.