Chatbots, algorithmic intake, and automated portal replies are being pushed into the front door of American health care, sold as efficiency. Too often they are cost-cutting: software that decides whether you get to see a clinician at all, deployed before anyone has shown it gets the answer right. When an algorithm misses an unusual presentation or invents guidance, the patient pays for it, and no one in the room is accountable. Technology should help doctors do their jobs, not screen patients out of seeing one. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to require independent clinical validation before any AI tool is used to diagnose or triage patients, to ban algorithmic gatekeeping in Medicare and Medicaid, and to guarantee every patient the right to reach a licensed human clinician.
Chatbots, algorithmic intake, and automated portal replies are being pushed into the front door of American health care, sold as efficiency. Too often they are cost-cutting: software that decides whether you get to see a clinician at all, deployed before anyone has shown it gets the answer right. When an algorithm misses an unusual presentation or invents guidance, the patient pays for it, and no one in the room is accountable. Technology should help doctors do their jobs, not screen patients out of seeing one. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to require independent clinical validation before any AI tool is used to diagnose or triage patients, to ban algorithmic gatekeeping in Medicare and Medicaid, and to guarantee every patient the right to reach a licensed human clinician.
