Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:29:11 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:29:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="97a7bd2197840649415c42801603d4c2"; logging-data="1913266"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181a36rYsPpoE+i3n/mmiO/ka9poDQn0kk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:lMcPN51r3hmkfRYbZl3+q0VA6kU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2225 On 12/11/2024 12:26 PM, Paul S Person wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:42 +0000, quadibloc > wrote: > >> A few days ago, I had read in the news that the CEO of a major health >> insurer was gunned down. This was shocking; it seemed to mean that no >> one >> was safe from crime. >> Then I came across the following information on a web site: that the >> health care insurer of which he was the CEO had used an AI system to >> process claims; this system rejected 90% of all claims, including many >> valid ones. >> Maybe this site is a leftist one, and this claim is not true, I don't >> know for sure. But if it is true, my sympathy for this homicide victim >> basically evaporated. After all, if someone's health insurer doesn't >> pay out on valid claims... that person might not get health care. That >> kills people. But the legal system wasn't in the process of prosecuting >> him as aggressively as any other murderer. > > I saw the claim; I have no idea how true it is. It appears to be well founded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH_Predict pt