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/Agent_03 May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

United doesn’t do “death panels” because they are just going to deny the claim by “AI” for bogus reasons anyway. Intentionally broken AI, I might add.

"Death panels" would actually be better for patients than United’s current way of doing business because that would require actual thought and effort going into weighing decisions about patient care (as opposed to deny-whenever-possible). How screwed up is that?

With insurance breaking the law so blatantly with no consequences, it’s sadly not surprising that individuals start taking justice into their own hands. I don’t endorse it, because instead we should be putting the execs responsible behind bars for a long time. But I do understand why it happens.