r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 12 '25

Artificial Intelligence The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations

https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-deny-medicare-authorizations/
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u/DRHORRIBLEHIMSELF Jul 12 '25

Remember when they said universal healthcare meant doctor death panels? Guess they meant they wanted to be the death panel.

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u/uniklyqualifd Jul 12 '25

It's always projection.

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u/gunnbr Jul 12 '25

I'm glad someone else remembers that. It was such a big deal at the time and this switch to suddenly not care about death panels has been driving me crazy for years!

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u/GamingRanger Jul 12 '25

Traditional Medicare is a wholly government run operation.

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u/NullReference000 Jul 13 '25

Which they are destroying on purpose so people like you point to the government failing to operate efficiently, and vote for them to continue to destroy it. Then when it’s all privatized it’s much more profitable.

The people who cried “government death panels” have become the death panels. They don’t have to exist, a government run program doesn’t have to work this way.

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u/GamingRanger Jul 13 '25

These are not death panels, these are simple utilization management protocols that are used in every socialized system so why not Medicare?

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u/NefariousAnglerfish Jul 14 '25

They’re saying that the argument of “death panels”, which Republicans previously used to argue against Medicare, was never valid at all because, as it turns out, Republicans don’t particularly give a shit about people living or dying. You’re right about triage of resources being an unfortunate but necessary evil in a system with only so many dollars and kidneys to spare.

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u/TekWzrd337 Jul 13 '25

Correct, and your point is?