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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:29:11 -0500
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On 12/11/2024 12:26 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:42 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
> 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

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