Included Health - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Included Health is Medium Risk.

Included Health is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company elevates merit, excellence, and integrity ahead of race and identity-based policies. Included Health 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	No Data
Employment Protection	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	High 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:

Included Health 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:

N/A

Rationale:

Included Health does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Included Health does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1)(2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Included Health opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces Included Health supports DEI within its business practices (1)(2). Included Health supports DEI within its business practices. From its Our Commitment to Fighting for Social Justice: “We unequivocally reject racism and will attack its roots in the healthcare system. We will do this by… improving our own workplace practices to make them more diverse and inclusive… and investing in the diversity of [our] communities” (3). Included Health offers healthcare options for LGBTQ individual. It also published multiple white papers and research papers outlining methods of inclusive healthcare (4)(5).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Included Health partnered with Fortune 500 companies to create the Black Community Innovation Coalition with the goal to close the gap between racial inequalities in healthcare through research (1)(2). The company offers an LGBTQ employee benefits assessment to other businesses (3). Included Health partners with “over 70 top employers and health plans” to support 4 million LGBTQ and Black people (4). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Included Health using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (5).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Included Health does not operate a PAC and has not lobbied for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).