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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by jlarocco on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:44PM (#45736170)
Exactly. The elites hire experts to do it for them, while everybody else has to deal with the complex rules themselves.

It's like auditting tax returns of the rich - of course they didn't cheat, they already lobbied for the loopholes making their shenanigans legal.

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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by mrguyorama on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:29PM (#45736821)
>It's like auditting tax returns of the rich - of course they didn't cheat, they already lobbied for the loopholes making their shenanigans legal.

The IRS disagrees every single year.

They say they can easily recover significant revenue from tax cheats if they were staffed and funded enough, to the point that every dollar you fund the IRS recovers 1.6 dollars.

The rich people who say they are just getting their fair deductions then refuse to fund the IRS.

If they weren't cheating, they wouldn't have to kneecap the IRS.

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