Cambia Health Solutions

Oregon
Health Care Equipment and Services, Insurance

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Cambia Health Solution is a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, operating in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Washington. The company likely discriminates against religious organizations in its charitable giving and does provide employees with protections against viewpoint discrimination. Cambia Health Solutions vets vendors according to LGBTQ policies and uses its corporate reputation to advance LGBTQ causes and views on systemic racism. However, Cambia Health has not used its corporate funds to support ideological groups or agendas hostile to freedom of expression. For these reasons, Cambia Health Solutions receives a Medium Risk rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Cambia Health Solutions has received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means the company has a written policy pledging to vet vendors for LGBTQ policies (1)(2). However, the company has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Cambia Health Foundation requires organizations to not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation to be eligible for giving (1). Therefore, some religious organizations would likely not be eligible for charitable donations.

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Cambia Health Solutions does not provide its employees with protections against viewpoint discrimination (1)(2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Cambia Health Solutions hosted a video blog with its PRIDE employee resource group supporting LGBTQ activism (1). The company had its team participate in racism training through the Center for Equity and Inclusion and had a representative in The Race Equity Culture fellowship program (2). CEO Mark Ganz is a signatory of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge (3). In response to the death of George Floyd, Cambia Health Solutions posted on social media and its website about addressing “the trauma of systemic racism” (4)(5)(6).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs was a top 10 recipient of Cambia Health Solution’s charitable giving (1). Otherwise, there are no known instances of Cambia Health donating to ideological organizations hostile to freedom of expression (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
Rationale

Cambia Health Solutions has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes (1).

All links were last accessed and all information was updated on:
May 11, 2023

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