Dear Friend,
This week, I forced a vote during a Ways & Means Committee markup on requiring the Trump administration to release unseen information about the WISeR program. The program pays private companies to use AI to delay and deny care to seniors on traditional Medicare in Washington and five other states.
Since the program began in January, patients have been left in severe pain and unable to access the care prescribed by their doctors. A new report reveals significant flaws with the program, including denying over half of claims in Washington in the first three months of the program, perverse incentives for companies to deny care, and plans to apply it to cancer treatments eventually. My measure would force the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release more information about how the program is operating so you can know the full story.
Watch my explanation of the harmful impacts of WISeR.