It’s the rare policy question that unites Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Democratic-led Maryland government against President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California: How should health insurers use AI?

  • hector@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    As always, they use computer programs to deny benefits people qualify for, and then claim ignorance after they finally will be forced to admit it after a long period of pretending it’s not a systematic problem. And suffer next to no consequence for it, despite knowingly killing people by cheating them out of benefits the companies agreed to pay, killing them by dishonoring their contracted obligations, knowingly, and using their corrupt influence to do it.

    We all know they aren’t using these programs in good faith. Same as the UK looking into the accounting for fraud in their post offices, flagging non theft as theft, same as the state of Michigan in a program to determine unemployment insurance fraud, that flagged non fraud as fraud, these programs are set up by people that want to privatize those services, and get rid of them, and they suppressed facts about them improperly flagging people en masse, and persecuted the falsley accused, even after no reasonable person could continue to believe it.

    Which is my point, they know, but they will after they are forced to admit it, just say oopsie, it’s all the program’s fault, maybe the executives will blame an underling that ok’d the project, but despite them being the behind it, and them making sure it was set up to cheat and harm people, they will face no consequence for it.

    For the Health Insurance Companies, worst case for them is they litigate with governmental bodies and enter into a settlement not admitting fault where they cut a check to that government, but not their victims, or victims’ families in this case because health care insurance’s victims by design die as they are denied care.

    Is there no way to bring these companies to heel for people when our politicians and their regulators refuse to in any real way? Because this is Racketeering. Indeed it’s possible to bring private rackateering charges against companies too. I think state and federal. But of course the courts are captured.

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      16 hours ago

      I attended an AI/ML training course at a major cloud provider, and the was a group of hospital executives there.

      They were absolutely giddy about the prospect of using AI to deny care to unprofitable patients.