health-policy

Arkansas Cut 18,000 Eligible People From Medicaid Over Paperwork, and the 2027 Fix Is AI Its Own Authors Say Will Reproduce the Bias

A federal work requirement hits ACA Medicaid on January 1, 2027. Health-policy academics propose using AI to verify, screen, and manage the rollout, and the paper's lead author admits the system will "100% reproduce" the biases baked into the data.