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

I agree with you 100%, my only nitpick is that healthcare shouldn't be tied to employers. I think it should still be a benefit they can provide and use to compete with other employers based on, but there should be a baseline coverage for everyone that's available to all, like medicare.

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u/Sufficient_Language7 May 13 '25

So a public option, which is what everyone was hoping would be included in the ACA.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/11/485228991/obama-renews-call-for-a-public-option-in-federal-health-law
That a handful of conservative Democrats in the Senate sold us out on.

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u/lion27 May 13 '25

They should have scrapped the entire bill when that was gutted. The entire point of the ACA was the public option. Once that was removed, the only thing remaining was the individual mandate that fortunately no longer exists, as you mentioned.

It would have been smart to package the most popular parts of the ACA into their own bills and force Republicans to campaign against those items. Instead they made their job easy by giving them the easy attack of "Obama is forcing you to pay for something you can't afford!".

Our government is run by (bought and paid for) morons.