Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by LeoPanthera on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:00PM (#45737304)

The US is only ostensibly a democracy. It's not a functioning one, due to widespread voter disenfranchisement.

Voter ID laws, voter roll purges, registration barriers, polling place accessibility, early and mail-in voting restrictions, and perhaps most importantly gerrymandering, misinformation, and intimidation all serve to reduce the power of the ballot box.

And that's before we even get to US citizens in Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa being unable to vote in Presidential elections at all.

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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by nickff on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:19PM (#45737609)

Most other countries have voter ID, and the controversy surrounding it is puzzling to most foreigners. Additionally, parliamentary systems which result in majority governments are much more ‘dictatorship-like’ than the US system where individual representatives retain some autonomy.

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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by hydrogen7800 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:26PM (#45738657)

A large number of Americans do not have ID's, which is strange to many people. If the need for voter ID and risk of fraud were so great, the efforts would be to make it trivial for these folks to get one, rather than preventing them from voting.

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