The EFF Just Sued the Government Over an AI That Decides Who Gets Medical Care
A lawsuit targeting Medicare's secret AI care-denial system arrived the same week a KFF poll showed Americans turning to chatbots for health advice because they can't afford doctors. The two stories are the same story.
A Bluesky post shared Wednesday delivered the news without ceremony: the Electronic Frontier Foundation had sued the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for access to records about a multistate program using AI to evaluate requests for medical care. Twelve likes. Four words of commentary from the replies. The flatness of the reaction wasn't indifference — it was recognition. By midweek on the healthcare AI beat, a lawsuit over algorithmic care denial felt less like a shock than a confirmation of something people had already suspected was happening.
The timing was hard to ignore. A new KFF poll making rounds on Bluesky the same week found that large numbers of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health information — not out of curiosity, not because they're tech enthusiasts, but because they cannot afford to see a doctor. The post framing that poll landed with resigned clarity:
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