Ten Minutes or You're Fired: Inside the Algorithm Running the Gig Economy
No manager ever has to fire you. The app just stops giving you shifts.
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Your Insurance Company Uses an Algorithm to Deny Claims. Here's the Algorithm.
The doctor spent 1.2 seconds reviewing your claim. That's not an estimate. That's the documented average, pulled from internal Cigna records obtained by ProPublica. In the time it takes to blink twice, a physician employed by your insurance company decided whether you needed medical care.
Someone Swapped Real Chemotherapy for Fakes. Patients Found Out When the Cancer Came Back.
Cancer drugs are now the fourth most counterfeited drug class in the world. The WHO issued an alert about fake immunotherapy drugs with no active ingredient. Counterfeit Keytruda killed at least one patient in Mexico. Fake cancer drugs have reached US clinics. Most providers don't know it.
