TELL CONGRESS: Stop Trump's AI Death Panels for Medicare (Indivisible)
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https://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/120088
A huge, huge story broke just before the holiday weekend, but hardly anyone is talking about it. Let’s change that, shall we?
Here’s the story: Donald Trump and Dr. Oz* are rolling out a pilot program to fundamentally change Medicare. They want to require senior citizens to get prior authorization for some healthcare services, and here’s the kicker: Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets to decide whether medical care is approved or not.
Believe it or not, it actually gets worse when you dig into the details of these “AI Death Panels,” which we’ll do in a moment, but if you’re already caught up on this story, here’s what you can do right now:
Email Congress right now and tell them to block Trump’s AI-powered attack on Medicare enrollees’ healthcare.
Introducing AI Death Panels
Link:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-oz-medicare-ai/
Medicare has historically covered more procedures, with fewer hoops to jump through, than for-profit insurance companies. Whereas private insurers callously limit care and require “prior authorization” before covering many services or procedures, Medicare offers broad coverage that’s comparatively transparent and simple.
Not anymore, if Trump and Oz get their way. The Trump regime wants to introduce prior authorization -- one of the most hated aspects of private insurance -- to Medicare, and they’re outsourcing those life-changing authorization decisions to unproven AI companies.
It gets even worse: AI developers will be paid based on the value of requested services or procedures they reject -- meaning AI companies would directly profit from denying needed care to seniors.
In short, if a computer program decides that you “don’t need” a medical procedure -- even if your doctor recommended it -- an AI executive gets paid while you get left holding the bag.
Remember when the GOP invented the term "death panel" in their scare campaign to stop the Affordable Care Act? That was totally manufactured nonsense. This is actually happening. Trump is rolling out real-life AI Death Panels.
OUR DEMANDS
These for-profit AI Death Panels will roll out this January in six pilot states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. The pilots will reportedly be limited to about 17 procedures to start, but if they achieve their goal -- cutting costs by denying a lot of people a lot of care -- they could expand to more procedures and more states.
This attack on Medicare creates massive political risk for Trump and his GOP enablers in Congress. Medicare is one of the most popular public programs in US history, and hard working people typically don’t respond well when politicians interfere with their health decisions.
That gives us an outside chance of swaying enough congressional Republicans to take action to stop AI Death Panels before they roll out -- or failing that, make them pay a HUGE political price in 2026.
Step one: Let ‘em hear it. Give ‘em hell.
Email your Members of Congress right now! Demand that they stop AI-powered Medicare service rejections and use the upcoming federal budget fight to restore healthcare funding.
Email Congress Now. Link:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-oz-medicare-ai/
This is just the latest dystopian move in Trump and Republicans’ campaign to systematically dismantle our healthcare system at the behest of corporate backers and billionaires. With a huge federal funding deadline around the corner, now is the time to fight back hard.
In solidarity,
Indivisible Team
P.S. We focused much of this email on the Republican side of the aisle. But we need to put pressure on Democratic members of Congress, too, because it’s important they use all their leverage to protect healthcare. Whether Dems or Republicans represent you in Washington, email your senators and representative now.
Link:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-oz-medicare-ai/
*Did you forget that Trump picked (and GOP Senators confirmed) another disgraced TV star, Dr. Oz, to run the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid? That’s right, millions of seniors’ healthcare is in the hands of a famous snake-oil salesman!
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Wait, I got the wrong snake oil salesman.
So hard to keep up.
Enjoy anyway.
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That's what I hope you'll do.
One of these days, those memes are gonna
Stop the maga coup.
OOPS! Wrong Nazis.
There.
