California Routinely Denies Healthcare To White People, Lawsuit Reveals
Baxter Dmitry
YourNewsWire.com
February 21, 2018
Former medical director for insurance giant Aetna in California has admitted under oath that white people are routinely denied healthcare in California because of their race.
Medical director Dr. Jay Iinuma said the task of approving or denying care was delegated to nursing staff, who would “routinely deny whites healthcare coverage while approving those for blacks.“
According to current and former employees of Aetna in California, whites in California are four times more likely to have their claims with Aetna denied than blacks.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expressed outrage after receiving a copy of the Dr. Iinuma’s testimony and said his office is looking into how widespread the practice is within Aetna. According to Jones:
“If the health insurer is making decisions to deny coverage without a physician actually ever reviewing medical records, that’s of significant concern to me as insurance commissioner in California and potentially a violation of law.”
Aetna, the nation’s third-largest insurance provider with over 23 million customers, claims it looked forward to “explaining (their) clinical review process” to the commissioner. However, current and former staff at the insurance giant describe a purely arbitrary claim process in California, riddled with institutionalized racism against whites.
A former staff nurse, who regularly handled claims, said on condition of anonymity:
“I mean there were thousands and thousands of claims a day that each one of us had to handle, there was just simply no way that anyone could run through that much detail. So I just figured if you’re black or Latino, chances are, you need all the help you can get.”
“We even had a saying at the office, ‘If they’re black, have their back, if they’re white, they’ll be alright.‘”
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