Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties, long delays in decisions and care, puzzling denials, frustrated doctors, and patients suffering in pain. Those reports were largely confirmed earlier this month when the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a tranche of federal documents about the program, called WISeR, that the group obtained amid litigation. The documents included feedback from healthcare providers, including one who called the program “a disgrace to the human race” and reported seeing patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
- ▪Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties, long delays in decisions and care, puzzling denials, frustrated doctors, and patients suffering in pain.
- ▪Those reports were largely confirmed earlier this month when the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a tranche of federal documents about the program, called WISeR, that the group obtained amid litigation.
- ▪The documents included feedback from healthcare providers, including one who called the program “a disgrace to the human race” and reported seeing patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
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| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:45:57 +0000 |
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“A disgrace” Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.” Beth Mole – Sep 25, 2026 7:00 am | 98 Chris Klomp, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and US President Donald Trump's nominee to be deputy secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.
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