Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
ndsipa_pomu
11 points
3 comments
September 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ndsipa_pomu
Paying the WISeR contractors a percentage of denied claims is clearly going to lead to a lot of human suffering and earlier deaths. The AQS (Aggregate Quality Score) penalties are pretty much meaningless as they are just slightly reduce the poorly performing contractors' profits.
N_Lens
I'm unsurprised, yet disgusted.