• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    Officials assert that the AI tools will only be used to judge claims for about a dozen different types of procedures it deems to be wasteful and providing little benefit, including steroid shots to relieve pain, per the NYT.

    Yeah cause people on medicare aren’t likely to need steroid shots for things like joint pain or anything. Anyone 65 and older should start saving their money now to pay for their steroid shots that are going to start costing them a couple hundred bucks a pop.

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      As someone who lives with constant pain, calling pain relief of any kind “wasteful” enrages me. See if pain relief has “little benefit” when im done with you, mufucka

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      If payments out of pocket were reasonable maybe we are charged like a hundred times what everybody elsein the world pays.

      Investors like private equity have taken over Health Care and are extracting the life savings of baby boomers for medical care that used to cost a reasonable amount of money.