Trump administration uses AI to approve Medicare care for seniors in what critics call a disastrous experiment
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
What happened
The Trump administration launched the WISeR pilot in January, using AI to approve or deny some care for Medicare patients, including older adults—a process that previously did not require prior physician approval. Media reports have since described technical failures, long delays in decisions and care, baffling denials, physician frustration, and patients enduring pain.
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