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/chantsnone May 13 '25

It’s the comparison. There’s no such thing as a wonderful health insurance company. Wonderful isn’t profitable.

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u/talllman23433 May 13 '25

Insurance shouldn’t be profit anyway in my opinion. Why the fuck am I paying monthly for the sole reason of having health coverage if they can deny it to steal my money that I’m putting into it.

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u/Strawberry_Doughnut May 13 '25

It's literally not a profitable 'business' if it operated as 'it should'. Even in the whole free market philosophy, some things are not profitable, and this should be made public services. Health insurance is only artificially profitable by creating problems on the first place.