The head of the state agency in charge of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s old medical records yesterday shot down national Democrats’ claim that the health-care provider misunderstood an opposition research request for his family’s private information.
“Our attorney feels very strongly that the original letter did in fact have possibility of revealing personal information,” said Dolores L. Mitchell, executive director of the Group Insurance Commission, a quasi-independent agency that administers health insurance for state employees and their families.
The Herald reported yesterday that Brown blasted the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for trying to obtain private medical records for himself and his family. GIC officials notified Brown on Tuesday that the DSCC asked them “to provide insurance information.”
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