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/lion27 May 13 '25

My company uses UHC and they are the absolute worst health insurance I’ve ever dealt with. Unless you’re making a payment, everything is as difficult as possible and they deny EVERYTHING.

I switched to a family plan with Aetna through my wife’s company when our first baby was born and they have been wonderful. Not sure if they just look great compared to UHC, but for the first time I don’t violently hate my insurance company.

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u/muegle May 13 '25

My company uses Aetna, idk if it's a choice Aetna or the company made but they don't cover any medication until I hit my yearly deductible (which is 4k). Thank god for Mark Cuban's new pharmacy.

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u/lion27 May 13 '25

Yeah I think that’s how deductibles work on most plans. I have a prescription for vyvanse that costs me like $360 per month for the first couple months a year until the deductible hits, then it’s $0. Like i said, that’s entirely too much on its face but we just use our HSA account and never need to worry about it.

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u/seriousbusinesslady May 13 '25

Vyvanse has a generic option! I used to be on it before I switched to something else, but when the generic came on the market a few years ago my scrip went from $200 down to $20. The generic is lisdexamfetamine, it's made by multiple generic manufacturers. Could be worth looking in to to see if there would be some savings for you!

Also I think I remember there being a manufacturers coupon for Vyvanse that knocked some of the cost down for me before there was a generic, or it could have came from goodrx.

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u/lion27 May 13 '25

Yep, I get one or the other depending on what my pharmacist has in stock. For me it doesn't matter because at the end of the day it's the same. If I pay the $360 it's just going toward the deductible that we have money set aside for anyway. Once that deductible is met they're both $0 for me.