In July, the Donald Trump administration unveiled two policies: the “Making Health Technology Great Again” initiative and the executive order “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” At first glance, one seems aimed at health care modernization and the other at public safety. But beneath their branding lies a shared infrastructure (and agenda) that poses a profound threat to the civil rights, privacy and bodily autonomy of millions of Americans.
Taken together, these policies are not just reforms . They are the building blocks of a techno-carceral state, where health data becomes a tool of surveillance , disability is cast as disorder and care becomes indistinguishable from control.
The health technology initiative, launched through the Centers for Medic