Jonathan Cammons

You have an opioid addiction because of an injury that you received while you were in service. That information is going to be potentially stored in the VA database.

There's all sorts of financial information because, you know, in order to apply for benefits, sometimes you have to disclose details about your financial circumstances. So Doge claims that what it is trying to do is to find fraud and inefficiency and waste in the federal government so that it can be eliminated.

And the single biggest budget line item at the VA is the benefits that are paid out to veterans. So if you're really looking for fraud and waste and inefficiency, you're not going to be able to do that at VA without looking at the veteran benefit databases, which are the ones that have the personal information in them.

If you are a veteran that's getting medical care from VA, your medical data is stored in VA databases. What conditions you're being treated for, what treatments you're receiving. If you have a VA therapist or you go to group therapy at VA, then therapy notes are being stored in VA databases. If you, I don't know,