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How insurance companies use AI algorithms to cut health care for seniors on Medicare Advantage

Insurance companies are using algorithms to cut off healthcare to vulnerable seniors subscribed to Medicare Advantage, the taxpayer-funded alternative to traditional Medicare.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young hears more from Bob Herman, who covers the business of healthcare for STAT News, the health and medicine publication.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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