Our People and Culture 100 2021 Sustainability Report Responsible Business Practices A Modern, High-Performing Health System Introduction Performance Data Environmental Health Our priorities We believe every person — regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, location or income — deserves to be healthy. We are committed to helping ensure every person has access to high-quality, affordable health care that meets their unique health care needs and financial means. We support solutions that build on the strengths of today’s health system and leverage innovative, proven, private-sector approaches and successful public-private partnerships. Our U.S. policy priorities include: Achieving universal coverage by strengthening and expanding existing coverage options and public-private partnerships. We believe that the 29 million uninsured individuals in the U.S. can be covered through Medicaid, exchanges and the individual market. Improving health care affordability with the goal of reducing health care costs for consumers, employers, governments and the broader health care system. We believe this can be accomplished through a series of solutions, including transitioning to value-based care, addressing the high cost of prescription drugs and delivering more care at lower-cost sites of service with better clinical outcomes. Enhancing the health care experience by expanding the use of secure digital tools that deliver personalized, actionable cost and quality information, streamlining and standardizing quality measurement and increasing workforce capacity by amending state and federal scope of practice laws. Achieving better health outcomes by improving care quality to reduce the burden of disease. We believe improved health outcomes can lower health care costs by 40% by compensating providers for cost-effective, high- quality care, promoting evidence-based clinical approaches to care delivery and improving health literacy. Political contributions Political contributions are part of our efforts to advance solutions intended to ensure all people have access to high- quality, affordable health care. Our Political Action Committee is managed by a long-established governance process, which includes thorough review and approval of each contribution, and public disclosure of contributions in accordance with our political contributions policy, including publishing semi- annual political contribution reports on our website. Our board’s Governance Committee, which oversees our overall strategy on ESG policies and practices, has oversight of our advocacy and lobbying processes and activities, including key trade association and coalition memberships, as well as for the review of political contributions made by the company and its Political Action Committee. UnitedHealth Group is recognized as a “Trendsetter” in the 2021 Center for Political Accountability-Zicklin Index of Political Accountability. Governance The Governance Committee of the UnitedHealth Group Board of Directors oversees the company’s political contributions policy. The Health and Clinical Practice Policies Committee of the UnitedHealth Group Board of Directors oversees the company’s policies, positions and practices concerning broad public policy issues, including those that relate to health care policy and regulatory issues. UnitedHealth Group files federal lobbying disclosure reports quarterly with the U.S. Congress, and state lobbying disclosure reports with the appropriate state governing agencies and in compliance with applicable laws. Additional information on our public policy priorities can be found in The Path Forward .