Beginning in January, Medicare will launch an AI pilot program—the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model—to help determine whether certain procedures, such as skin and tissue substitutes, electrical nerve-stimulator implants, and knee arthroscopy for osteoarthritis, will be covered. While CMS claims the final decision will rest with a human employee, critics warn that companies using the AI review process have financial incentives to deny coverage, since they profit when costs are reduced. The move is part of a broader push by the Trump administration to curb government waste and fraud, but it comes as Medicare Part B premiums are projected to rise by $21.50 per month in 2026. This raises serious concerns about whether AI’s role in prior authorization could prioritize cost savings over patient care.

Allowing AI to play a central role in healthcare decision-making is a dangerous precedent. Revelation 13 describes a future where the Beast system controls the ability to buy and sell, and by extension, access life’s necessities. As AI increasingly becomes the “gatekeeper” for essential services—whether medical care, financial access, or basic goods—it conditions the public to accept automated systems as ultimate authorities. In such a framework, the fusion of AI technology with economic and political control could enable a level of surveillance and restriction that fulfills the prophetic vision of a world where compliance with a global authority determines one’s access to survival itself.

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SOURCE: Newsweek