Well that's the worst headline I have read in a while

Literally and with no exaggeration, death panels. You know, the ones Republicans were yelling about a few years ago. Those exact fucking ones.

AI companies going to start generating fake claims and denying them for rewards, I guarantee it.

Well I'm sure it'll be all fair and definitely not
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED CHACHING
DENIED CHACHING
CHACHING
CHACHING
CHACHING

Oh no, that'll deffo not happen. No way!!!

Is there a name for the next step beyond perverse incentives?

Because that's where we are now.

Here's your head of Medicare.

Good Ol' Doctor Oz.

Big profile you should be able to track him down easy in the wee hours of the morning to ask some questions as any good citizen of someone representing their interests.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/mehmet-oz.html

I fucking hate the future, man.

Officials assert that the AI tools will only be used to judge claims for about a dozen different types of procedures it deems to be wasteful and providing little benefit, including steroid shots to relieve pain, per the NYT.

Yeah cause people on medicare aren't likely to need steroid shots for things like joint pain or anything. Anyone 65 and older should start saving their money now to pay for their steroid shots that are going to start costing them a couple hundred bucks a pop.

You don’t need AI for that….

#!/usr/bin/env python3

def main():
    try:
        _ = input("Enter reasoning for claim: ")  # read but ignore the input
        print("denied")                # always respond "denied"
    except (EOFError, KeyboardInterrupt):
        # Even if input is interrupted, still respond "denied"
        print("denied")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

So basically the opposite of what Obama or Biden did as usual https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/biden-proposes-guardrails-on-health-care-ai-upping-weight-loss-drug-access/

So they will approve more claims to avoid paying, right... Right?

In the radio business they call that "payola", and it is very much illegal.

So, reject everything and let appeals sort it out.

We got you fam.

So bribe the private sector to deny all claims routed through them first for government healthcare and then claim 'gUbmEnT dEAtH pANEls!' are the problem.

something something video game character from a nintendo game who's colors are from mixing blue+yellow... 😏

I've wondered this for a while: Insurance is a contractual obligation on the insurer's part, right? What's stopping me from just suing them for breach of contract rather than going through their appeals process if they illegally deny my claim?

If it makes anyone feel better, they denied everything when it was humans running the show too

Ah! Americans need to be willing to dig deep—really tough it out—to cut costs and save as much money as AI makes possible so that the government can give just 1 more penny to the billionaires. Won't someone please think of the billionaires?

I guess "death panels" are fine if they are machines?

what the fuck kind of country looks to save billions of dollars spent on healthcare for their own citizens instead of waste fraud & abuse by the uber wealthy, or the military?

you can have an insanely strong military without the waste & fraud that exists in the US

It should be illegal for anyone but a doctor to deny a claim. This isn't even going to be AI, its just going to be a program that denies everything.

This is FUCKING enraging.

I didn't know I still had any faith to lose in the insurance industry. At this point anyone in a management position is undeniably evil, in all senses of the word. I wish nothing but the worst for them.

I’m so tired of living under capitalism. Can you all please get some fucking class consciousness so we can get out of this hellscape?

That's a fucking idiotic idea.

Gross

So what's the point of having insurance if you can't claim what you need?

Garbage humans in, garbage AI out

The term 'perverse incentive' springs to mind, except there'll be nothing unexpected about the consequences.

What’s the fucking point of paying for it anymore? Might as well not even have it at this point…

Wasnt incentivising robots to kill humans supoosed to be prevented by those Azimov laws?

Fucking bots, they started disallowing us from browsing the web. Sure they'll be more careful with our lives.

Will it then be fined when it gets it wrong after manual review? Will the person be compensated too?

Of course what they forget is other AI companies will game it on the other end to add new codes to claim that won't be denied.