UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors’ judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. This has resulted in patients being kicked out of rehabilitation programs and care facilities far too early, forcing them to drain their life savings to obtain needed care that should be covered under their government-funded Medicare Advantage Plan.

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    8 months ago

    It may be wild, but - unfortunately - it also makes perfect sense for the world we live in. Capitalism, ho!