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Ron DeSantis: “Patients pay more because they're basically paying the cost of the technologies that are being used and…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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They can or no, the hospitals are billing the insurance, the insurance is using it to deny, hospitals are using it to bill. And it's like. And so what ends up happening, Patients pay more because they're basically paying the cost of the technologies that are being used and they're actually getting denied more than they were prior to artificial intelligence. Okay, so is AI going to be used to make you healthier? Is it going to be used to cure diseases? (34:45–34:57)

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Asserts that AI in healthcare leads to higher patient costs and more denials.

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