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Medicare Starts Rationing Treatments Next Year Using AI

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers like United HealthCare that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 07:33 PM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

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Similar cold-blooded algorithms used by health insurers like UHC have been the subject of several high-profile lawsuits, which have asserted that the technology allowed the companies to swiftly deny large batches of claims and cut patients off from care in rehabilitation facilities. The AI companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections. Congratulations Republican voters for being the engine of our destruction. When the hospitals in your rural areas begin to close or when Medicare denies you or a loved one treatment, who will you blame? Bill Clinton? Joe Biden? Which liberal or Democrat? Who?

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Last year greedy oligarch UHC CEO Brian Thompson paid the ultimate price for coldly putting profits over people. The number of patients UHC denied coverage for must be in the tens of thousands. Those poor people loyally paid their United Healthcare premiums for years, only to be denied treatment just so UHC could enrich itself further. Next year AI contractors will enrich themselves denying treatment to Medicare patients in the same way as UHC.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-29 01:06 AM

... United HealthCare ...

imo, the company name is an oxymoron.

"HealthCare"

imo, hardly.

More like, trying to suck as much money out of healthcare as they can....

But, that's just my opinion. YMMV.

I had dental insurance with that corporation at one point.

I called their "customer service," and I asked a simple question, ~how can I increase the coverage of my insurance?~ I was bounced around from person to person. No one seemed to want to answer my simple question.

After a while of playing their game, I decided to change my dental insurance company.

No issues or customer service problems since then.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-29 01:22 AM

#2: Hi LL: Had you see any of these reports?

www.cthealth.org

www.fiercehealthcare.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-29 02:22 AM

So it begins.

Our debt balloons so we can pay contractors to make our lives miserable.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-29 02:47 AM

"So it begins.

Our debt balloons so we can pay contractors to make our lives miserable.

#4 | POSTED BY JPW "

This has been visible for decades. So what you will about him...Paul Ryan had been calling this out going back into the W administration. His proposed solutions were a mixed bag, but he was among a group sounding the alarm.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-08-29 02:55 AM

No doubt a racist allotment from a racist nation.

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-29 04:00 AM

#6: Racism underlies why the US is the only developed nation in the world not to have universal healthcare for its citizens.

Link: www.nytimes.com

Now comes AI rationing and cruel triage into Medicare so contractors can make money.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-29 04:22 AM

Death panels via AI brought to you by Trump.
Did you really vote for this, MAGAts?
Why, yes, you did.
Bon appetit, suckas!

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-29 05:12 AM

#7
The "donors" are getting the government they bought.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-29 05:58 AM

So what you will about him...Paul Ryan had been calling this out going back into the W administration. His proposed solutions were a mixed bag, but he was among a group sounding the alarm.
#5 | Posted by BellRinger

Yes, and his proposed solution on the Romney/Ryan ticket in 2012 was functionally the same as this plan.

The Republican plan was vouchers, aka handouts, with the cost savings happening because the handout wasn't enough to pay for the cost of care.

The new Republican plan cuts out the middleman and simply denies coverage for the care.

The end result is the same: People on Medicaid don't get medically indicated care.

And you're happy with that outcome.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-29 11:14 AM

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-29 10:54 PM

Republicans opposing "Obamacare" bleated about "death panels!!!" like the useless sheep they are

#12 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-29 11:51 PM

... will use a tactic employed by private insurers like United HealthCare ...

Yeah, there's a health insurance provider that seems to care about patient outcome over profits.

/s

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-30 07:43 PM

AI can't even get Taco Bell orders correct but yeah, let's trust our healthcare decisions to the technology.

#14 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-08-31 12:23 AM

@#14 ... but yeah, let's trust our healthcare decisions to the technology. ...

Yeah.

It seems to depend upon how, and that is specific, how the AI has been trained via the data it has been given.

The question then seems to become, how will our current environment of ~healthcare for a profit~ affect the training of those AI bots?

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-31 12:29 AM

LAMP

That and can a doctor's decision override an AI decision?

#16 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-31 12:58 AM

Jeff is a ------- imbecile

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-31 03:31 PM

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