Dr. Algorithm Will See You Now: The Trump Administration’s Great AI Health-Care Experiment
I have some exciting news for anyone who has ever waited six weeks to see a specialist, three hours in an urgent-care lobby, or seventeen minutes on hold while an insurance company explained that your suffering was not formatted correctly. The federal government has apparently located the cure for American health care. It is artificial intelligence. Of course it is. We could have guessed this was coming. When a country has too few doctors in many communities, exhausted nurses, rural hospitals fighting to remain open, medical bills that resemble ransom notes, electronic records that refuse to communicate with one another, and insurers that can turn the word “no” into a forty-page administrative process, the obvious response is to add a chatbot. The Trump administration is moving to push AI deeper into medical care, presenting the technology as a tool that can modernize a system almost everyone agrees is expensive, fragmented, slow, and unnecessarily hostile to the people trapped inside ...
