Kaiser Patients Are Pushing Back on AI Before It Arrives

The press narrative on healthcare AI focuses on the diagnostic layer — the tools that help radiologists catch tumors earlier or flag anomalies in ECGs. The patient conversation on Bluesky is focused elsewhere entirely: on the bureaucratic layer where AI is used to deny, delay, or override care decisions. That is the application patients encounter, and it is the one that physicians report increasing friction around as adoption rises. When a commenter describes AI treatment refusal stacked on top of insurance company obstruction , they are not imagining a dystopia…