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On the recordSeptember 18, 2025
so over at the Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services, the administrator, Dr. Oz--yes, that guy--decided they should curb waste by letting the government use AI to decide if your medical procedure is really necessary. That means for-profit companies will use bots to deny care for seniors and working people and will get rich doing it at your expense. Right now, there are over 70 million Americans who rely on Medicare and Medicaid for their insurance. If there is one thing that Americans agree on right now, it is that our healthcare system is sick. Our premiums are too high. Our access is shrinking. We are all enraged by a system that is already designed to deny us healthcare coverage, not make us healthier. Our healthcare system is so perverse, we don't need yet another way for the system to screw us over. Americans deserve affordable, quality healthcare, and AI should not be determining whether you get healthcare. That is what Democrats are fighting for.
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Becca Balint
Democratic · Vermont

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Addressing concerns about the use of AI in healthcare decision-making.

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