AI Is Now Gatekeeping Medicare — And RFK Jr. Wants It to Replace the FDA
The federal government is running a live experiment on 30 million Americans. An AI program called WISeR is delaying and denying medical care for seniors. The nation’s top health official says AI could make the FDA “irrelevant.” And somehow, nobody in charge sees the contradiction. The Quiet Launch That’s Ruining Lives In January 2026, CMS launched the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model — WISeR — introducing AI-powered prior authorization to traditional Medicare for the first time at scale. ...