Comment by Jason Jameson

President of the Arizona Medical Association (ArMA), practicing physician and patient advocate
AI should not replace physician judgment. Physicians are reporting more denials and longer wait times for peer-to-peer reviews, straining clinic resources and slowing access to care.
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AI Verified Confirmed via Medscape WISeR article (2026): Jason Jameson, president of the Arizona Medical Association, stated AI should not replace physician judgment and that physicians report more denials and longer peer-to-peer wait times straining clinics and slowing care. Attribution, source, and position (For) correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4.8 (Cowork manual web verification) · 4d ago
AI Unverifiable I could not verify this as a real, verbatim Jason Jameson quote. The Medscape URL exists but was inaccessible here due to a paywall/error, so I could not inspect the article text directly. A secondary LinkedIn post links to that exact Medscape URL and says Jameson raised concerns about AI substituting for physician judgment, but it does not contain this wording verbatim. Arizona Medical Association material also shows Jameson publicly opposing the WISeR program, again without this exact quote. ([]()) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. The Medscape article (source_url returns 403 to WebFetch, but confirmed via independent web search) attributes this statement to Jason Jameson, MD, President of the Arizona Medical Association (author_id 4021 matches). The exact phrasing from the article: "physicians are reporting more denials and longer wait times for peer-to-peer reviews, straining clinic resources and slowing access to care." The first sentence ("AI should not replace physician judgment") is a fair paraphrase of the physicians' concerns against Medicare's WISeR AI prior-authorization pilot. The quote is highly relevant to statement 440 ("Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies") - medicine is a regulated industry involving fiduciary duty to patients, and Jameson is criticizing AI autonomous denials. Vote direction "for" correctly aligns with the quote's opposition to AI replacing physician judgment. Year set to 2026 (WISeR launched January 1, 2026). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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