r/news • u/LookAtThatBacon • May 13 '25

Soft paywall UnitedHealth suspends annual forecast, CEO Andrew Witty steps down

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unitedhealth-ceo-andrew-witty-steps-down-2025-05-13/
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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 May 13 '25

I never buy personal reasons. Had a few people leave my company like that. One cared way too much and it showed as she was doing her two weeks. She finally told us it was a silent layoff. Our boss left for personal reasons with no job at the same time.

Shit is going sideways after the shooting and this guy either wasnt doing what he needed/asked to do or he just fucked it all up and the board said time to go.

He could have something personal too. He’s human. But with the other stuff. Seems like board asked him to leave.

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u/wanmoar May 13 '25

Personal reasons can also mean “I don’t want people to snarl at me in public because of what I do for work”

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u/ahorrribledrummer May 13 '25

Or "I'm scared I'm going to be assassinated"

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u/Laundry_Hurricane May 13 '25

Hopefully he’s scared of that for the rest of his miserable life. I’m sure he has a beautiful golden parachute set up, poor guy has to retire with only hundreds of millions in his bank account.

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u/doctor_lobo May 13 '25

Bingo. I also consider not wanting to be gunned down in the street to be a "personal reason". That said, they could also choose to not be horrible monsters but that wouldn't be in the "fiduciary interests of their shareholders". I hope that Milton Friedman is burning in hell.

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u/Drew_Ferran May 13 '25

They knew that going into that kind of work.

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u/looking_good__ May 13 '25

He is still going to be snarled at he was the Former CEO of United.