UnitedHealth Group has long been the symbol of stability in American healthcare. The stock sits in retirement accounts, index funds, and institutional portfolios across the world. It represents predictability, scale, and safety. But that safety may now be entering its most fragile phase in decades.
The headlines about Department of Justice investigations and overbilling allegations are not new. The market already reacted. But the deeper problem is what comes next. The story is no longer about what UnitedHealth may have done in the past. The real issue is what its business model looks like in the future if the rules of the system begin to change.
The entire Medicare Advantage industry, which fuels nearly half of UnitedHealth’s revenue, is under structural review. Regulators, lawmakers, and analysts are questioning whether the program has become too expensive for taxpayers, too dependent on risk scoring, and too profitable for insurers. If that system is recalibrated, UnitedHealth’s growth and valuation will be recalibrated with it. That is the big problem.
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