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UPDATE: 17 Dec, SanFranciscoCBS: KP strike day two _______________________________________________________ Four thousand Kaiser mental health workers across California will go on strike Monday for five days, highlighting an unresolved labor issue for...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Dec 16, 2019 at 09:16 AM PST
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Last week, KP’s occasional local-area-update email in California’s Central Valley subregion got around to mentioning, among several routine announcements of little direct effect upon ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Nov 13, 2019 at 11:09 AM PST
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Received from KP’s principal investigator of the KP Southern California Research on Genes, Environment and Health study, Department of Research & Evaluation, this form-letter dated May 23, 2019:
Dear...
by mettle fatigue
42 comments
on Wed May 29, 2019 at 04:37 PM PDT
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This comment says it all—or at least much of it. This letter comes from a primary care doctor who has a number of HMO (Health Maintenance Organizations) patients. HMOs are the true death squads. In
by Alligator Ed
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on Mon Feb 29, 2016 at 12:48 AM PST
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I recently saw a study that said that when people actually use their policies their attitude toward the ACA becomes more favorable. This has certainly been the case for me.
Things did get rocky ...
by Istillhope
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on Mon Aug 18, 2014 at 09:35 AM PDT
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California insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross misled “millions of enrollees” about whether their doctors and hospitals were participating in its new plans, and failed to disclose that many ...
by McCamy Taylor
31 comments
on Thu Jul 17, 2014 at 08:46 PM PDT
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I have known Opal for five years. In that time, her health has gone from not too good to pretty bad, but she is hanging in there. Or rather, she was hanging in there. Now, she's hanging by a thread.
by McCamy Taylor
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on Sun Apr 13, 2014 at 08:54 PM PDT
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I was recently in Florida to take care of my 89 year old mother and I have to say that the lack of compassion amongst her doctors and practically everyone who works in those offices is appalling. ...
by Mom to Miss M
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on Tue Aug 21, 2012 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Amazing. Absofreakinlutely amazing. I mean, with Florida's governor having a history of Medicaid and Medicare fraud, it's amazing that Florida fined Humana $3.3 million for not reporting Medicaid ...
by JDWolverton
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on Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 08:37 PM PDT
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It's been some time since I first posted on DK my "Tales of a Family Doctor". I hope this isn't ...
by doctoraaron
35 comments
on Tue Jul 19, 2011 at 02:55 PM PDT
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Washington D.C. -- It's hard to imagine that a briefing on rate regulation ...
by Consumer Watchdog
4 comments
on Wed May 11, 2011 at 03:35 PM PDT
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium ...
by The Media Consortium
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on Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 03:27 PM PST
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My friend's son was strangled from behind in his 8th grade band class until he passed out. After determining that this appeared to be entirely random and without provocation, the strangler was ...
by catherineD
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on Tue Dec 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM PST
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I hear a lot of people talking about "public option" and various other ways to keep the insurance companies in the loop, and I know that few of them seem to realize that the very concept of ...
by Andiamo
53 comments
on Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 08:56 AM PST
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I had one hell of a ride yesterday. I fell ill very suddenly during lunch (I already had a bit of a cold) and took a cab to go see my doctor. Downtown San Francisco, so it just made the most sense. ...
by Animeraider
43 comments
on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM PDT
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Those among us who are familiar with the Bible will recall that Jesus Christ himself was an active member of the health care community as he travelled about the Holy Land.
It is reported that he ...
by fake consultant
9 comments
on Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 06:49 AM PDT
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The public option for medical insurance is an important part of our desired reforms, of course. But at best it's a weak compromise, not single-payer. And the odds are that if it goes ahead, it'll ...
by K S LaVida
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on Thu Sep 24, 2009 at 03:25 PM PDT
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Doctor Linda Peeno, a renown expert in the field of "Managed Care", explains to Congress the dirty little secrets behind the Business of Health Care Denial:
THE REAL DEATH PANELS: ...
by jamess
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on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 11:37 AM PDT
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Barack Obama , Feb 19, 2008
Well, The System's Broken [...] Certainly I don't accept, in the richest county on Earth, that we ...
by jamess
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on Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 03:22 PM PDT
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My views on this issue are shaped by my experiences, as with most people. Particularly, they have been shaped by working as a lawyer, and before that a law clerk and low-level functionary in the ...
by John Minehan
9 comments
on Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 09:23 AM PDT
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