These are volunteers who will give the final yes or no to the applicant, based on his medical

report, his psychological report, his financial report, and on his record as a member of this

community, on his record as a responsible human being. In a word, is he worth saving? For the cold, hard fact of the matter is, somebody has got to be left out, and somebody has got to decide who shall live and who shall die. The Welcome to the Death Panel.

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And Abby Cardis.

Hello.

And I've been feeling really sick these last few months, especially the last six to eight weeks.

And that is because my chronic illness that has disabled and blinded me is sort of rolling at this constant low flare as a result of my insurance company sort of issuing this

automatic denial and denying a medication that had controlled my disease for over a decade.

So I've been without treatment for nine months, which has been pretty terrible.

You know, we are talking about AI and healthcare today, but

I'm also very, very deeply furious. I am full of some of the deepest, saddest, saddest rage

of my whole life about the open and blatant settler colonial genocide ongoing in Palestine.

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