Congressman Introduces Bill That Would Allow AI To Replace Your Doctor And Administer Prescriptions, And Normalize Wearables

“…Building medical records, tracking you, helping you manage any pharmaceuticals you use for your heart issues, even down to producing data sets for your cardiologist to remotely look at your data.”

Last month, Congressman David Schweikert (R-AZ) introduced bills H.R.193 - Maintaining Innovation and Safe Technologies Act, and H.R.238 - Healthy Technology Act of 2025, which, if eventually accepted, would artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to become your doctor and prescribe medications and pharmaceuticals instead.

H.R.193 was first introduced on January 3rd, and then referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and to the Committee on Ways and Means to be considered. The bill would: “To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on payment under the Medicare program for certain items involving artificial intelligence.”

In a press release, Schweikart argued that integrating AI into “our health care system could produce savings from 5 percent to 10 percent of spending, which equates to around $200 billion to $360 billion annually in 2019 dollars.” In a statement he said:

“My fixation on AI integration and the utility it provides to delivering the personalized care that patients deserve continues to grow. This legislation embraces the morality that is tied to implementing innovation further in our health care system.

“Automating the organization and collection of patient information has proven to reduce physician burden, detect health irregularities quicker, and provide hundreds of million dollars in savings each year. The potential for wearable devices to save American lives and American dollars is expanding, and it’s time for coverage to reflect that.”

Then on the 7th, the Arizona Rep. introduced H.R.238 which specifies that it would allow AI to administer prescriptions. It say: “To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the State involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.”

The amendment changes “the term ‘practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug’ includes artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that are—authorized pursuant to a statute of the State involved to prescribe the drug involved.”

The congressman has previously tried to get identical legislation passed before in 2023 and 2021, but was not accepted. But Schweikert is adamant that the U.S. needs to embrace these technologies.

In an interview with NextGov, the political outlet reported:

When it comes to the health sector, Schweikert said AI technologies can enhance everything from diagnostics to front and back office medical operations, such as automating the process of filling out a patient intake form. He added that his “holy grail” is working to ensure that, as the Food and Drug Administration approves the medical use of new technologies, “we'd be reimbursed.”

“How do I make sure we’re embracing technology and using it to bring disruptive cures to market, or other opportunities to market? And does that also now help lower drug pricing?”

Schweikert noted that the FDA in June of last year approved Apple Watch’s atrial fibrillation feature for use in clinical trials — the first such digital health tool approved for inclusion in the agency’s Medical Device Development Tools program,’ NextGov reported.

Schweikert said the next step is understanding how this type of technology fits “into everything from building medical records, tracking you, helping you manage any pharmaceuticals you use for your heart issues, even down to producing data sets for your cardiologist to remotely look at your data.

“It's here, we now just have to build the infrastructure around it,” he said about the new medical landscape, adding that “the technology is starting to move much faster than our regulatory rules.”

Furthermore, he claimed at the time, “Technology has to be part of the way we bend the borrowing and debt curve,” Schweikert said in an interview, adding that the broader adoption of AI “can make government better, faster, cheaper” in responding to the needs of Americans.

However, tech outlet Futurism is critical of Schweikert’s proposals and warns that rushing into this could lead to some serious issues, especially considering that AI, as they cite, is simply not at the right place to safely fulfil this concept considering how easy AI models “hallucinate” and can be easily tricked through persistent manipulation. The outlet argues:

He seems to have moved on from that cautious optimism, instead adopting the move-fast-break-things grindset that spits untested self driving cars onto our roads and AI Hitlerbots into our feeds — all without our consent, of course.

But the consequences of corner-cutting in the medical world are steep, and big tech has shown time and again that it would rather rush its products to market and shunt social responsibility onto us — filling our schools with ahistorical Anne Frank bots and AI buddies that drive teens toward suicide and self-harm.

Deregulation like the kind Schweikert proposes is exactly how big tech gets away with these offenses, such as training GenAI models on patient records without consent. It does nothing to ensure that subject matter experts are involved at any step in the process, or that we thoroughly consider the common good before the corporate good.

And as our lawmakers hand these tech firms the keys to the kingdom, it's often the most vulnerable who are harmed first — recall the bombshell revelation that the biggest and flashiest AI models are built on the backs of sweatshop workers.

And in the era of Donald Trump's full embrace of AI, it's not hard to imagine another executive order or federal partnership making AI pharmacists a reality without that pesky oversight.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

It’s a revolving door: both Republicans and Democrats are totally onboard with this technology. I reported on several instances when President Biden was doling out hundreds of billions to tech companies for research & development and to build AI datacenters via executive order; and that revolving door keeps spinning under Trump, as he was the first President to sign an executive order on AI development in 2019, and more recently with the $500 billion Project Stargate, which he called "the largest AI infrastructure project in history" - creating more datacenters and ‘energy infrastructure,’ and create mRNA cancer vaccines tailored to the individual.

So, make no mistake about it, it is a uniparty that is bought and paid for by big tech to sell their products and transhumanist agenda, merging man with the machine; where the algorithm know everything about us, stripping away our thoughts and autonomy in the process. But, hey, the tell us it will “create jobs” so we should be excited, right?

The claims made by the author for Futurism are not hyperbole, in my view: simply read the recent remarks made by Oracle’s Larry Ellison (who received funding by Trump via Stargate) about AI knowing everything about us, and you’ll get the picture. Ellison and Musk spell out what they want and are doing, and reveals what this massive push to “cut” government spending is all about, but it has to be politicized and turned into tabloid drama to distract from something far more insidious.

Schweikert’s remarks that AI “can make government better, faster, cheaper” fits right in line with Trump, Musk, Ellison, Altman, and many others are doing right now. Don’t fall for the distractions.

We will see if these bills advances anytime soon, but it is evident that whether or not they succeed this is the direction everything will be moving very soon. As part of this coming great AI purge, you are going to soon see - within the next several years - a lot doctors, nurses, receptionists and pharmacists losing their jobs.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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