Donald Trump and Dr. Oz* are rolling out a pilot program to fundamentally change Medicare. They want to require senior citizens to get prior authorization for some healthcare services, and here’s the kicker: Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets to decide whether medical care is approved or not.
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#AIDeathPanels
#USPOL
#Medicare

Clearly the efficiency of AI will hyper charge the denial of claims to maintain ever increasing ROI for shareholders of corporations servicing government contracts requiring endless reductions in providing ever increasingly expensive healthcare to patients who can be easily dismissed and buried under digital bureaucracy death panels ending their lives while enhancing the profits for our wealthiest oligarchs.

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#Broligarchy
#DigitalFascism
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Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/health/medicare-prior-approval-health-care.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.I16O.YzX6dpvn-2Cw&referringSource=articleShare Death panels: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

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