1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

I am writing with desperation and outrage to demand the immediate termination of the WISeR model. Allowing artificial intelligence to decide whether people deserve life-sustaining care- and financially rewarding companies for denying it- is nothing less than state-sanctioned cruelty. This policy is a death sentence for millions of Americans who rely on Medicare, not just the elderly but disabled children, teens, and adults whose lives already hang in the balance of fragile healthcare access. How can we reduce human beings to profit margins where their suffering and even their deaths are seen as “savings”? Many patients already spend months fighting for basic approvals, and this system will push them past breaking points. You are handing corporations the power to decide who lives and who dies, and making their profit dependent on denial. The consequences will be catastrophic. Medicare recipients in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will be forced into this cruel experiment without the option to opt out. Doctors have already warned that prior authorization causes dangerous delays and forces patients to abandon treatment- AI-driven denials will escalate this into an avalanche of unnecessary suffering, medical decline, and preventable deaths. WISeR will devastate families, erode trust in Medicare, and shred the very promise that our government will protect its most vulnerable. I urge you with all the urgency this moment demands: stop this reckless program immediately before it destroys lives. To stand by is to be complicit in the suffering and deaths of countless Americans.