This Is How They Kill People Without Pulling a Trigger
An 83-year-old man got denied life-changing pain treatment three times. Not by a doctor, by an AI bot. And the company running that algorithm gets paid MORE the every time it says no.
This is a real, active federal pilot program called WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction) running right now in 6 US states: Washington, Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. Medicare patients are having their doctor-recommended treatments decided by a private-company algorithm instead of a human being, and it was never voted on by Congress.
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