General Discussion

Advantage plans ALREADY have half of the Medicare business, and they already use AI. That would be the perfect group of test subjects for any study of how well AI was working.

But Traditional recipients are paying HIGHER PREMIUMS -- and rejecting freebies like gym memberships -- in order to NOT have the for-profit insurers deciding on their care, rather than their doctors. Why should any Traditional Medicare recipients have to continue to pay Traditional premiums while being switched to AI-driven prior-authorization processes -- the thing they were trying to avoid when they chose a more expensive Traditional plan?

It seems to me that this is just all a way to get more people to switch to Advantage plans. If they're going to be forced to get prior authorizations anyway, they might as well take the freebies.