Trump Admin Throws AI Kill Switch on NJ Medicare Recipients
by Veronica Fernandez and Bob WItanek
Our corrupted healthcare system is about to get much worse, even if you didn’t think that was possible. Effective 1/1/26, six states, including our own NJ, will “participate” in the new WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction) Program. Our premium and tax dollars will now be sent to private third party companies who will use AI to determine if certain medical procedures “are really needed” for seniors.
Apparently these firms, which will probably outsource jobs overseas know better than our doctors and our own bodies what we need and what we don’t. This is rooted in an attempt to reduce care for seniors and provide even more profits to companies who provide no medical products or services. The most ironic aspect of this new attempt to screw over seniors is that AI has clearly proven that universal healthcare is far more humane AND cost effective than our current corrupt system of care.
These are in effect the dreaded “death panels” and they will be AI driven – the companies will get incentive profit increases for denial of services savings and in many cases denials can lead to fatalities and suffering. The private companies will profit directly from their wielding of the death reaper cleaver. These are literally AI driven profit motivated death panels – Trump has thrown the kill switch on NJ seniors!
A Call to Action would be to request your representatives, at every level, from township Committee to US Senate to ask THEM what does AI have to say about instituting Universal Healthcare for Americans?! We can beat them at their own game and get better care!
The following commentary was offered in response:
“”On behalf of the Green Party of NJ I condemn Trump’s profit driven kick back scheme to send tax funds to his gangster pals who will run the AI death panel process instead of providing necessary procedures on NJ’s 1.7 million Medicare recipients which is consistent with so many actions of this administration aimed at culling the population to fund tax cuts. I call upon every elected official in NJ – of the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the candidates, from dog catcher up to governor, to join me in demanding that NJ be taken out of this death switch experiment. The fight has to be with more than rhetoric – indeed immediate legal action by NJ must be launched to challenge this unilateral profit driven back door method to deny NJ people our Medicare benefits!” – Lily Benavides, Green Party of NJ
Please complete this form if you are interested in participating in the NJ Adhoc Committee: NO AI DEATH PANELS!
