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After author Jeremy White‘s seventy-four-year-old mom, Laura Swire, was admitted to a Baton Rouge hospital for a stroke in August 2023, her only child and his incredible wife, Edie, were conscripted into a war with a soulless monstrosity after it repeatedly tried to throw Laura’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 in Kansas City officially ruled Laura the winner of that war.
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. 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. InHumana dissects the undead, human-made entities dominating the landscape of our contradiction-filled economic jungle, particularly with regard to Medicare Advantage plans, which face increasing bipartisan scrutiny on Capitol Hill after failing to save taxpayers a dime in more than two decades of existence. The exploding half-trillion-dollar industry is the target of multiple class-action lawsuits—as well as an investigative news series nominated for a 2024 Pulitzer Prize—because companies like Humana and UnitedHealthcare aggressively use unregulated artificial intelligence in denying patients like Laura the doctor-recommended care they critically need.
• 2,000,000 (nearly 6% of) prior authorization requests were denied by Medicare Advantage plans in 2021.
• Only 1 in 500 denials are appealed.
• 90% of appeals are overturned.
• 33,000,000 Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, with nearly half of them as members of plans offered by either Humana or UnitedHealthcare.
