this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
41 points (100.0% liked)

Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

3475 readers
576 users here now

Health: physical and mental, individual and public.

Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.

See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.

Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.

Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.

Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.

Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Creating what critics are equating to "AI death panels" elderly Americans in need of care, the Trump administration is launching a pilot program in six states that will use artificial intelligence to determine whether Medicare recipients should qualify for certain procedures.

As reported by The New York Times on Thursday, the pilot program will hire private firms to deploy AI to make what are known as "prior authorization" decisions regarding whether Medicare should pay for certain procedures, including spinal surgeries and steroid injections. The program is set to run first in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington.

The reported pilot program also drew harsh reviews from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), as president Randi Weingarten and the union's Retirees Program and Policy Council co-chair Tom Murphy issued a joint statement accusing the Trump administration of "attempting to transform Medicare into the very worst of private insurance."

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] gibmiser@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

THANKS OBAMA

Get ready for someone somewhere to blame it on obamacare

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

We've got to stop talking about Trump did this and that and focus on Republicans. MAGA will naturally recoil when you attack the cult leader. But frame these actions as, "Republicans did this!" and we have a better chance they'll listen.