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Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall. Dr. Oz promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first all-staff meeting on Monday promoting the use of artificial intelligence at the agency and praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again Initiative,” sources tell WIRED. Current CMS employees describe the agency as “the most policy-dense organization in government” where the administrator must make decisions on where to spend billions of dollars on certain treatments in a zero-sum environment. (During his Senate confirmation hearing for CMS administrator, Oz also claimed “it is our patriotic duty to be healthy,” connecting personal exercise to the overall reduction of expenses for Medicare and Medicaid.)
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