Computer Glitches Are Stripping Disabled Patients of Medicaid
If you thought dealing with government software was annoying, automated systems are now kicking real disabled people off healthcare over simple IT bugs.
Complex computer systems deciding who qualifies for Medicaid have always been notoriously glitchy. But now, state databases are being flooded with massive updates forced by Trump-era tax and domestic policy changes.
Instead of handling the transition smoothly, the overloaded legacy software is crashing and throwing out errors. The result? Glitchy automated systems are wrongfully denying life-saving coverage to disabled patients who rely on it every day.
Outsourcing life-and-death healthcare decisions to buggy decades-old code turns out to be exactly as disastrous as it sounds.
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