Aetna offers health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability, and longrun care insurance and worker advantages, primarily through employerpaid (fully or partly) insurance and profit programs, and thru health care. Membership numbers: as of Gregorian calendar month thirty, 2013.
22 million—medical members
14.3 million—dental members
13.8 million—pharmacy members
13.609 million—group insurance members
1,000,000+ — health-care professionals
597,000+ — primary-care doctors and specialists
5,300+ — hospitals
In the CA Health Care Quality report 2011 Edition, Aetna received two out of four stars in Meeting National Standards of Care and one out of four in Members Rate Their health insurance within the CA Health Care Quality report 2010 Edition Aetna received three out of four stars in each Meeting National Standards of Care and the way Members Rate Their health insurance, for a rating of "Good" (out of "Poor, " "Fair, " "Good, " or "Excellent In 2000 Deadria FarmerPaellmann, head of the noncommercial Restitution Study cluster of Hoboken, New Jersey, disclosed that from some 1853 to some 1860 Aetna had issued life assurance policies to slaveowners covering the lives of their slaves.Aetna acknowledged that concrete proof exists for Aetna issuance coverage for the lives of slaves and discharged a public apology.
In 2002, Farmer-Paellmann brought suit against Aetna and 2 alternative firms in judicature requesting reparations for the descendants of slaves. The case aforementioned Aetna,CSX and Fleet were "unjustly enriched" by "a system that slave, tortured, starved and exploited men It argued that African-Americans ar still suffering the results of 2½ centuries of enslavement followed by quite a century of institutionalized racism. The grievance goddam slavery for contemporary disparities between blacks and whites in financial gain, education, literacy, health, life and crime.
This suit was denied, and therefore the denial for the most part upheld on charm.In 2006, Farmer Paellmann proclaimed a nationwide boycott of Aetna over the problem of reparations for its policies covering slaves. Aetna explicit that its commitment to diversity within the work and its investment of over thirty six million greenbacks in such areas as education, health, economic development, community partnerships, and minority-owned businessinitiatives within the African-American community is more practical at aiding descendants of slaves and African Americans normally than creating restitutions for Aetna's life assurance policies on slaves
