Stop Trump’s AI death panels for Medicare

President Trump promised to protect Medicare.  That’s not what his regime is doing.

They launched a pilot project in 6 states (Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington) in which health care decisions for Medicare patients will be made, not by medical professionals, but by artificial intelligence algorithms from private, for-profit companies.  AI will be used to determine whether Medicare patients would be covered for certain procedures.  The AI companies will get a cut of the savings they generate, so they will have a strong financial incentive to deny care.

Requiring prior authorization and then denying medical procedures that doctors have deemed necessary so that private companies can profit is putting Medicare patients in serious, possibly mortal, danger.

Whatever else this program does, it certainly breaks President Trump’s promise to protect Medicare.

Suzanne Sperling

Athens