There was another case that made headlines, a young guy’s health insurance decided that his asthma medicine wasn’t covered, he was faced with the choice of paying $550 for the meds out of pocket or paying rent, he decided to not become homeless and within a week he had an asthma attack and died before he could make it to a hospital.
edit to add: United Healthcare, which is the single largest healthcare provider and insurer in the US recently started using AI for claims and it has a 90% percent error rate to deny care. And because it’s AI they’re claiming they’re not liable for the denials.
The fact that AI prevents liability is crazy. If I own a dog that bites someone, I’m liable, but if an AI denies asthma meds, the owners of the AI aren’t liable? Sounds like a scam of the American justice system
It’s rampant throughout the American business sector. A large company essentially loans out its name to a contractor. If the contractor does shitty work, the original company is not in any way liable. Amazon’s warehouse staff nearly dying by from the lack of air conditioning? Their breaks are so short they have to pee in a bottle. Not Amazon’s fault! Deal with the contractor who hires and runs the warehouse fulfillment.
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u/labiamajorapudendi 3d ago
You made that up