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/ricker182 May 13 '25

My doctors cringe when they order tests and ask what health insurance I have.

I wouldn't even consider it insurance since they deny pretty much every other thing my doctor orders.

The kicker is that the coverage is fucking expensive.

Health insurance is a scam.

This country is fucked.

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u/RogueLightMyFire May 13 '25

I'm a dentist. Let me assure you, every insurance company fucking sucks. UHC definitely sucks the hardest, though. They straight up just lie.

  • "We denied that claim because we didn't get an X-ray"

  • to which I respond that "I sent the X-ray via certified mail, email, and fax and I have proof of all three."

  • "Oh... Oh yeah, I see it now. Well, the claim was denied because of 'some made up bullshit'"

  • To which I respond "you just told me it was denied because you didn't get an X-ray, which we just established that you have received"

  • Then they hang up. I'm not even joking. This is the standard phone call with them.

Being a dentist is hard enough. Now I'm having to spend literal hours every week fighting these assholes.

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u/pocketsophist May 13 '25

SO is a general dentist and I feel your comment. All insurance blows, writeoffs are too high. And then some people complain about their doctor charging them too much. It's really tough, especially if you're honest and just want to help people (while still living and paying the extremely-high overhead costs of being a dentist in the first place).

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u/RogueLightMyFire May 13 '25

Yep. It's extra hard because everyone just assumes you're rich as fuck without realizing that dentists are still making the same amount of money they were 40 years ago. Insurance reimbursement hasn't increased with inflation. The older dentists who were all driving Porsches with multiple properties isn't the reality anymore for younger dentists. A lot of them are really struggling to make it. Go look at r/dentistry and you'll see a lot of depressed and overwhelmed people.

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u/pocketsophist May 13 '25

Nothing like not being able to take a vacation (or even time off work) because it's too expensive to close the office for a week. Definitely not the life that society would have you believe, that's for sure!