A few years ago, I visited my ophthalmologist. He looked at my records and said, “So you’re on Medicaid?” No, I had Blue Cross. Somehow, Medicaid’s records indicated that I was enrolled.
Moving forward a few years and I now get about 20 calls a day from India over Medicaid scams. The incessant calls got so bad that I had to get a call-screening telephone. I still see the daily count of calls not making it through the screening process.
The U.S. has now allowed its medical and financial records to be moved to a third-world country, facilitated by the H-1B program. Foreign workers have access to America’s critical information systems. The Indian intelligence community undoubtably has free access to this information, just as Indian scammers do.
A lot of scammers in India have my medical records.
The outsourcing of data-processing inherently opens up security risks. One report found that “53% of Indian vendors experienced at least one third-party breach in the past year.” Yet U.S. companies send their data offshore while glossing over the risks.
Someday, a U.S. bank is going to open for business on a Monday morning and find that it transferred $20,000,000,000 to North Korea. Maybe that will bring about some kind of data security reform.
On the other hand, we used to say it would take someone using H-1B to import sex slaves to bring about visa reform. Then that happened — and no H-1B reform followed.