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Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 153 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Deloitte should be liable for the medical bills of patients who it wrongly denied coverage for.

They saved money by skipping QA, they can pay for the fallout of their bugs.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Bro... This is America, these guys never get in trouble for anything

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would they get in trouble when they are meeting the goals of the program?

Kicking people out of Medicare is the point. Whether they're supposed to be on the program is a secondary concern.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Exactly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the distinction between "should" and "will"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They are liable but nobody will enforce the law because fuck plebs

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree.

I also wish Deloitte would stop winning contracts to build their shitty, cobbled together tech solutions for pennies (to the contractors) on the dollar. Their track record for such activity is actually kinda garbage in the industry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Will keep happening as long as contracts are awarded based on flashy proposals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

From your fingers to the will of the people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

God damn right. They want to outsource jobs AND cause people harm due to their ignorance?? (lead pipes, lead paint, asbestos, need I say more)

Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or, how about a small fine. Maybe 5% of the extra profit they made in this scam and they don't even have to stop or admit wrong doing

^ this is what will likely happen