Posted on 05/25/2024 9:11:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kaiser Permanente is America’s oldest HMO and largest healthcare provider. It’s a superb institution but is suffering the consequences of embracing the leftist COVID narrative. As a sign of its retreat from its COVID dead-end, it’s now trying to get its unvaccinated doctors back into the fold.
For 33 years, I’ve been a completely satisfied Kaiser patient.* I’ve never received anything but good care from the people who work there, whether doctors, nurses, physical therapists, receptionists, pharmacists, or anyone else. I also think it’s a fantastic model of how medical care can be done well and affordably.
Kaiser is named after the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, who founded it in 1945 after over a decade of providing low-cost healthcare to workers and their families. What made Kaiser’s treatment centers different was that they didn’t focus on treating only existing illnesses and injuries. Instead, the minds behind it figured out that a healthy workforce was a productive workforce, so Kaiser facilities emphasized preventative medicine.
From that single corporate beginning, Kaiser has grown into America’s largest Health Maintenance Organization, with offices across the West, Hawaii, and the Southeast.
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during COVID, Kaiser was at the front of the line—proudly so—for vaccination. That meant that when state and local governments demanded vaccinations for physicians, and when Joe Biden issued an executive order mandating vaccinations for healthcare workers in facilities receiving federal reimbursement (that means all of them), Kaiser meekly went along with the mandates.
Kaiser did so despite being the largest healthcare provider in America, which means that it has an enormous voice in the medical field. That’s why, in 2021, Kaiser fired all physicians who refused vaccinations and didn’t qualify for exemptions.
Now, though, those mandates are gone, and Kaiser is facing a reckoning in the form of a physician shortage.
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Then to top it off they add, the jab isn't required, you just have to tell is if you are jabbed each year. No thanks.
Desert Center Doctors
To an individua, their response should be the same one Elon Musk had for those trying to threaten him: GFY
There she is. I have missed her.
hey would be fools to go back. Better to have private practice and if they are specialists, heart doctors and such, they should maybe investigate setting up or joining offshore hospitals and clinics. Some countries around the Caribbean have designed or altered their tax codes to attract them. That is what many of the best British doctors and Canadian doctors did when their countries went all in for socialized medicine. Those docs went mostly to India and Thailand.
I research everything my medicare doc says and find other ways of doing things. So far I don’t take any prescription dugs and I have a fair complement of the crotchets of old age which I deal with satisfactorily in other ways. It costs more because Medicare doesn’t pay for curcumin and saw palmetto and such but I avoid “side effects” and stay in good shape.
Such reckless fascism will be a stain on their reputations forever. We knew well before these mandates that the decision on whether to vaccinate or not was very personal & did not impact other people. Personally, I chose to get vaccinated. But I cannot impose such a decision on other people.
Ex Kaiser nurse, fired for not getting the COVID shot, reacts to a letter from the HMO begging her to reapply.
Her response? “See you in court!”
https://patriots.win/p/17tKeC15nB/ex-kaiser-nurse-fired-for-not-ge/c/
Wow! First, in their letter Kaiser immediately blames the federal government. No mention of the fact that Kaiser is this huge national healthcare powerhouse that is at the very pinnacle of making and influencing government health policy and could have easily pushed back and likely forced the government to back off.
Second, Kaiser’s letter goes on to specifically blame the individual doctor for not submitting to the vaccination mandate and then arrogantly states that now that the mandate has been lifted, “You are no longer in violation.” What? Are you kidding me? Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. No way I’d work for any organization that had the audacity to send out such a highly insulting letter.
That’s funny. Aren’t all the government tyrants and stooges claiming that they never forced or coerced anyone to get “vaccinated”?
Kaiser should hire back every doctor who wants to go back, with both back pay, a signing bonus and no annual verification. This would be non-negotiable for any future outbreaks.
Compensation? Back pay? Damages?
What about an apology that says gee we’re sorry we were wrong for being authoritarian jerks based on fake science?
Good choice of song.
Covid was/is total FUBAR Global Takeover Attempt.
We Will Never Forget.
“Tribunal” Bump!
See Post #7
AND a HUGE SIGNING BONUS ALONG WITH BACK PAY.
Well, that is because he was paying for it. But now that third parties are paying, Kaiser Permanente's approach is the opposite—the big money is in illness and hospitalization, not prevention.
An extremely fair-skinned acquaintance of mine asked her Kaiser doctor for a lab test of her Vitamin D blood levels, because she never goes in the sun and low D levels contribute to massive illnesses like osteopenia, breast cancer and more. The doctor angrily refused, because the Plandemic was going on at the time, the patient did not want to take the jab, and many in the public were suddenly taking Vitamin D as a preventative. Doctor pitched a fit and lost a patient.
Not very eloquent, but that’s all the response they deserve.
“Kaiser is the bottom of the barrel.”
We had Kaiser in HI and CA, and were very happy with it. When we decided to move to the SE, we seriously considered GA because you can get Kaiser there. All people have different experiences in their lives, though.
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