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After author Jeremy White‘s seventy-four-year-old mom was hospitalized for a stroke, her only child and his wife were conscripted into a war with a soulless monstrosity after it repeatedly tried to throw his mom’s life away for the sake of profit, and for completely contradictory reasons. More than five trying, life-changing months after her stroke, and the subsequent seizures that took away use of her right side, a federal judge officially ruled Jeremy’s mom the winner of that war. It’s a war that frighteningly few Medicare Advantage Plan members like Mom bother fighting when companies like Humana deny patients the doctor-recommended care they critically need.
• 3.4 million (7.4% of) prior authorization requests were denied by Medicare Advantage plans in 2022.
• Fewer than 10% of denials are appealed.
• 90% of appeals are overturned.
• 33 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries), with nearly half of them as members of plans offered by either Humana or UnitedHealthcare.
A Pulitzer-nominated series, as well as multiple class-action lawsuits, have exposed insurers like Humana and UnitedHealthcare for aggressively using unregulated artificial intelligence in denying patients critically needed care.
Despite failing to save taxpayers a dime in more than two decades of existence, the exploding half-trillion-dollar Medicare Advantage industry stands to totally replace traditional Medicare under President Trump, thanks to Project 2025 and its goal of completely privatizing the nearly 60-year-old federal program.
InHumana: An American Healthcare Story examines what happens when humanity’s most altruistic endeavor is forced to operate within the most Darwinistic of modern economic models. InHumana dissects the undead, human-made entities dominating the landscape of our contradiction-filled economic jungle. With pathos and humor, this braided narrative from the belly of the beast explores what it means to be human and eviscerates the farce of corporate personhood.