Molina Healthcare

Oceangate, Brand New Day, Central Health Plan
Long Beach, California
Health Care Equipment and Services

Corporate Bias Rating

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Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Molina Healthcare often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Molina Healthcare occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

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

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Molina Healthcare received a score of 55 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2). Molina Healthcare has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3)(4).

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

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Molina does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. The company’s charitable giving focus areas are “health and well-being of disadvantaged populations” (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

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Molina Healthcare’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company provides a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (1)(2). The company provides DEI training for its healthcare providers and staff (3). Molina Healthcare protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Molina Healthcare’s CEO, Joseph M. Zubretsky, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace (1)(2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Molina Healthcare using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (3).

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

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Molina Healthcare’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company covers transgender related costs for its employees and their children, including paid short-term leave, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, chest surgeries, genital surgeries, medical visits and lab monitoring, travel and lodging. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company increases health care costs and risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). The company is a Silver Tier corporate sponsor of the Trevor Project, an organization that advocates for controversial sex and gender ideology, including “gender transition” drugs and surgeries for minors, through legislation, litigation, advertising, and PR campaigns. The organization also hosts online chatrooms that allow adults to communicate with minors as young as 13 about sexually explicit topics. Adults in these chatrooms have encouraged minors to adopt transgender identities and withhold this information from their parents (3)(4)(5)(6)(7). Molina Healthcare sponsored Pride in the CLE in 2025 (8). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (9).

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Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Molina Healthcare donated to the Equality PAC but has not lobbied for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).

Board Bias

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CEO of Molina Healthcare

Joseph Zubretsky

Joseph Zubretsky

Summary:

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Molina Healthcare is a member of the Fortune 250 operating in the Health Care Equipment and Services industry. Joseph Zubretsky and Dale B. Wolf serve as CEO/President and Chairman, respectively, leading the company’s C-suite executive team and the board of directors. Amongst these teams, the collective leadership is responsible for $57,055 to Republican causes and $62,359 to Democratic causes. Under their tenure, Molina Healthcare currently holds a 'Medium Risk' risk rating.

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Political Contributions of Leadership:

$57,055

$62,359

Republican

Democrat

Shareholder Proposals

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Date
ESG Category
Proponent
Summary of ResolutionMgmt RecTotal Vote % in Favor
5/1/24GovernanceJohn CheveddenSimple Majority VoteAgainst9.16%
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