When You Can't Afford a Doctor, ChatGPT Becomes the Clinic

Healthcare AI's dominant framing has been institutional — faster diagnoses, better clinical decisions, optimized hospital operations. The KFF poll, published March 25, introduced a population that framing had no room for: adults using AI chatbots because they cannot afford a physician ^[17]. Drew Altman's summary was deliberately understated, but the data it pointed to was not. , equaling the share who use social media for health — a comparison that should give pause to anyone…