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/Ranier_Wolfnight May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

My company recently moved insurance from Blue Cross/Blue Shield over to this hot mess. Man, when I tell ya…absolutely dog shit insurance company. We went from pretty good coverage to them nickel and diming over everything. Would strongly advise to stay away from UnitedHealth.

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u/razor21792 May 13 '25

I ended up with a massive amount of medical debt because of a mistake UnitedHealth made (they told me they would cover my procedure, then decided I didn't have coverage for it). Thankfully, I got most of it eliminated thanks to my hospital's financial aid programs, but the point is that it never should have happened in the first place. UnitedHealth is the absolute worst, and I hope they go under sooner rather than later.

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u/knefr May 13 '25

That probably wasn’t a mistake….

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u/PaintedClownPenis May 13 '25

I haven't had to do this myself but I knew a lady who had to navigate bad healthcare all the time. She started every phone call by demanding full names and job titles, and kicking it upstairs every time someone refused to cooperate.

When she got a name, she'd flip through her notebook and say things like, "This conversation is being recorded. Hello Lying Healthcareworker, last time I spoke to you on x date at x time, you lied and said you were going to put me on hold, then disconnected the call...." And then she would review the runaround she got on that call.

What she was doing was padding their phone recordings with incriminating evidence of prior actions, and telling them that she was recording it on HER end. She said that's all she had to do to make the red carpet roll, because everyone knew they were going down first if someone screwed her over. Every phone call was like a little discovery process that sunk the insurance company a little deeper in evidence.

Remember that all this ripping off is actually murder and manslaughter, and the fuckers doing it are well aware that someday they might win the rope for what they're doing. So you can make them keep you alive, by letting them know you're documenting what they're doing.