A health program pays AI vendors a cut of averted expenditures

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Medicare's new AI prior-authorization pilot pays vendors a cut of averted expenditures, which is one way to teach a model to say no, while MIT's Andrew McAfee warned that automating away entry-level jobs burns the apprenticeship ladder along with tomorrow's power users.

Reporting date: 2026-07-19 (not necessarily the event date)

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