/tags/prior-authorization-denials/ Recent content in Prior Authorization Denials on Keren Wang Hugo en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:36:41 +0000 /blog/2025/08/new-research-project-artificial-intelligence-and-human-sacrifice/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:36:41 +0000 /blog/2025/08/new-research-project-artificial-intelligence-and-human-sacrifice/ <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><!-- Copyright Banner --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:tadv/classic-paragraph --> <div style="margin: 1em auto; max-width: 760px; background: #fff3cd; color: #856404; border: 1px solid #ffeeba; border-radius: 4px; padding: 0.6em 1em; font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.35; text-align: center;"> </div> <!-- /wp:tadv/classic-paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"dropCap":true} --> <p class="has-drop-cap">On December 4, 2024, news broke that a lone gunman had assassinated UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive officer, Brian Thompson, outside the company’s headquarters.^{<a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">1</a>} The killing itself was shocking, but what unsettled many observers was the wave of sympathy that quickly coalesced around the perpetrator—donations, online tributes, and statements of support that revealed a raw seam in America’s collective experience of health care.^{<a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">2</a>} This dramatic act of killing is entangled with the dark trajectory in the devolution of the marketized healthcare industry in the United States: normalizing traumatic acts of takings, with increasingly unsustainable industry practices justifying the suspension of pre-existing taboos concerning the sanctity of life and the boundaries of wealth transfer.^{<a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">3</a>}</p>