Is this the ‘unnecessary care’ that UnitedHealthcare CEO Andrew Witty keeps talking about? 🤔
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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UnitedHealthcare: ’28 is plenty! Wait, you’re still alive? Awkward…’
Doctor: my patient needs <treatment>
Some wanker with a spreadsheet: No they don’t. Denied.
UHC merchants of DEATH
Ignoring the moral side of this for a minute, it’s also such a short sighted approach. Pay for an additional 8 treatments now, or another 27 when the cancer returns in a few years
Reminds me of the Family guy episode where Carter had the cure to cancer and instead of being a solid human being. He said “Why release the cure when you can bill people along the way”
That episode has resonated so hard as I grew up. Just really shows just how horrible the systems in the most powerful country really are
My wife went on a medication that completely cleared her eczema after decades of trying to solve the issue. She wa son it for six months when insurance said they will no longer cover it because they don’t deem it necessary. It’s $4k a month if we want to continue. How does any of this make sense
But what about the CEO’s 28 million dollar earnings bonus this year????
Why don’t we ever think about poor little millionaires who are struggling to afford their 7th Bugatti this year?!?!?!
This is minor compared to a lot of people, but I was on UHC years back. My son’s head wasn’t shaping properly and we had to get one of those helmets.
You have to wait until UHC says it’s necessary or not. So I get a letter in the mail that says it is covered, I set everything up with the doctor and we’re all ready to go. Literally three days later, I get a letter saying it’s not necessary or covered.
There was no indication on what I could do to fight this or talk to anyone about it. I felt like I had the rug pulled out from under me. How could them saying it was covered mean absolutely nothing when I would try to argue afterwards?
I can’t even imagine how people feel with cancer treatments, etc.
Remember, one of the arguments the Republican party made against universal healthcare was that the government will have to appoint “Death Panels” which would decide who lives and who dies. Completely ignoring the fact that this is already the case.
The cancer treatment industry is just as corrupt as the insurance. No doubt they want an absurd amount of money for the radiation treatment.
The whole system is designed to suck every last drop into profit as you fade.
Weird how my doctor I pick is wrong 20% of the time
What’s the CEO’s name?
Well, give it your best shot.
This is what I don’t get, at some point someone whose disease has gone terminal while they wait/fight for treatment approval is going to break and target these companies.
The CEO Andrew Witty, who publicly affirmed that his company will keep refusing coverage to people that have paid for it? People like him should be arrested for ruining people’s lives. Such a brave asshole.
At this point, even if you’re just a low level employee at one of these insurance companies, you’re still part of the problem.
Should show up with a Luigi hat on.
Why don’t those that deny claims have medical degrees? You would think they’d have an understanding as deep and complex as those with PhDs to be making such outlandish denials.
Can you ask to be billed in this situation? I know it’s life ruining debt but I wonder if you can at least take the debt to fight for your life to get the full treatment.
This shit needs to end, this is the biggest thing we need to not let fade into the news cycle in this country. I really want to get involved (legally) with fighting against this shit. It’s disgusting.
“You have enough oxygen” to the clawing at their throat. Violence is violence with or without a gun.
GO TO YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATION.
Get air time about their horrible treatment.
Pitchforks are in their future if they don’t course correct.
UHC is the real terrorist
Someone called it genocide in another thread today and I do wonder about that. Perhaps a tad dramatic but what is a genocide if not the systemic murder of a country’s citizens for someone else’s benefit? Though googling the definition, I’m not sure the goal is the actual death so much as it is the collateral. Still accomplishes the same though.
We should flip the script and let the doctors dictate treatment and all insurance gets to do is suggest alternatives. If a doc doesn’t change their mind then they get the original treatment. Oh and no prior authorization in hospitals or emergency rooms. And all suggestions must be sent to doctors within one week.
Good luck to this man on his cancer treatment and on his impending trial for making terroristic threats against UHC.
Just to mention – you can’t catch up later with radiation treatments. It’s all done in one go or you do more harm than good. Honestly this is dosimetrically a nightmare – the radical dose you give in 28# is not that for 33#.
Witty should just die.
He’s passed the Deny stage and is in the Defend stage
what comes after CEO?
Somewhere there’s a high school dropout managing a drug problem that’s gonna review this without referencing the right spreadsheets.
Would be wild if someone sent Brendan a gift card to Cabela’s…
“But what if your doctor prescribed you a speedboat? Would that be medically necessary??”
Fucking goombas.
They’re only into cutting the unnecessary care that doesn’t directly line their own pockets. Obviously. https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d
He should @bambulab and @prusa for maximum lols
If you’re gonna die anyway Luigi gave us an example to get all of these in the future approved
This is so sad.
What happens to the insurance company if they deny it and the person dies? Is there the right to have a wrongful death lawsuit? I have no idea, it just seems odd to me you can sue your doctor for malpractice but can you sue your insurer for malpractice if they are deciding what your treatment should be?
I mean, maybe we can address this fairly easily. If people currently can’t sue for that kind of thing, they should be able to.
Or, just single payer and stop all this insanity.
You know, it speaks to our humanity and kindness in a way that this sort of thing can play out over and over and over again and we only just recently get a Luigi.
If people are dying anyway, and you’re telling them we don’t care, go die, we’re not covering treatments….
Well, the math says CEOs have actually been very very fucking lucky.
1 CEO down, next the algorithm.
UHC blocking people from receiving care via rejection email is no different than if they were physically standing at the hospital keeping the patient away.
Health insurance in America is terrorism.
Ask them for written documentation from whichever board-certified, licensed specialist is countermanding what your oncologist is recommending.
>This is my hail mary to hopefully get them to reconsider.
There is….another way.
At least have the dignity to torture people 80% of the way before you kill them.