HealthPartners - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

HealthPartners is Medium Risk.

HealthPartners 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. Health Partners 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.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	No Data

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

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.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

HealthPartners has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

In 2021, HealthPartners required all employees to complete bias training. The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure. It is seeking to “increase the racial diversity of our leadership team by 100% – from 10% today to 20% by 2025– to match our patient and member population” (1)(2). The company also provides anti-racism training (3). HealthPartners does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

HealthPartners has published statements supporting ideological gender theory and transgenderism in kids (1)(2). In 2020, HealthPartners established an “equity, inclusion, and anti-racism” cabinet and launched a podcast that explores diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism (3)(4). One of its podcasts hosted a discussion on microaggressions and unconscious bias in the workplace (5). One of its hospitals hosted the George Floyd Memorial Art Exhibit to lead to discussions about racism and health care (6). The company was a signatory of the Health Sector Pledge, committing itself to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Signatories were expected to develop and release a climate resilience plan and appoint a corporate executive to oversee its implementation (7). After mass protests against federal immigration enforcement and fatal shootings in Minnesota, HealthPartners’ CEO Andrea Walsh signed an open letter calling for the immediate de-escalation of violence and for state, local, and federal authorities to work together to restore peace in Minnesota (8).