A lot of people feel the same way you do. Thank you for watching.

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I’m sorry that happened to you. Thank you for sharing your experience.

The stupid law in Ca States that after 12 years old children’s info is private from the parents.

It's probably so the teenagers can openly discuss sex, birth control or abuse.

I realize this reply to your comment is very untimely. But, I think the reason is because they are giving teens more privacy in case they are "sexually active?" It's truly insane that things are the way they are . . . I totally agree that your experience is unacceptable.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you for sharing your views.

It's so terrble!

Wow in what way? You mean the doctors are terrible? Which one do you recommend and for which state?

Thank you for sharing your story. That’s not good. I’ve heard others make similar comments and that is not the right way to treat people.

Yep they denied me a hernia surgery the other day

I gave him two chances because HealthNet was an expensive version of them. Now I have one year to go until I can collect Medicare and I'm going on scan insurance

it's true they are really awful

Was the tendon rupture the result of cipro or levaquin?

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Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you for pointing out. Here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5OJmsyZrpm8eGQ.html

Complex care is an important area for success. Thank you for watching.

Thank you for your suggestion.

You could still have Kaiser in Denver, Atlanta and Washington DC.

@@ahealthcarezare these the only other cities that have Kaiser? Which insurance do you recommend for Florida? Thank you very much in advance 🙏

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I’m so sorry.

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Great point. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for watching!

Right!!! The whole system is screwed!!!!!

Thank you for adding common sense into this discussion.

Yeah sure, because America SUBSIDIZES the rest of the world. That's how they afford it all.

Ditto

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Yeah doctors should leave Kaiser screw them there are so many better hospitals out there

Best thing to do is have doctors on salary so no financial conflict either way. That’s what Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic do.

Even doctors on salary but who work for the same payer who pays their salary will have incentives to save the payer the money . . . which may kickback to the doctors as bonus.

@@martinluu3291 good point, i hear the bonuses can be quite substantial, even rivaling the salary

I’m sorry to hear that.

Super. Thank you for your comment.

Great question. They would make less revenue than the current Partners revenue, but their operating margins would be much higher than the current Partners system. IMO the reason hospital systems don’t switch is because it would dramatically decrease their incentive for specialist care, tests and procedures and the specialists within these systems do not want that to happen. Thank you for the comment and questions.

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Great question. Union on the employer client side… Kaiser needs large population of employees and their families to get started. Maybe autoworkers around Detroit? If there are large unions in NY (state employee unions? Police? Fire?), then maybe. Thank you for watching.

Nah I prefer if Kaiser wasn’t in NY screw them they are ass holes there are so much better medical offices and hospitals in New York

THEY CANNOT! Kaiser Permanente was actually kicked out of the great State of New York!

Great question!

It runs it’s own hospitals. They also contract out with other facilities.

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Curious inquiry: they are PCPs on phone or in person for the appointment, of 15 minutes only? A PCP announced it's 10 minutes on phone, 20 minutes in person.

​@@ahealthcarezDr. & MBA, a humble me to question you, can I? You seemed contracting yourself in two (2) major issues or advocates: one (1) video you labeled as "value-based approches & integrated health management" model is for Losers!? Then another video (2) you loudly applauded "value based & integrated-health management" model with four (4) cores to have achieved successes with 12 millions members (3yrs ago) in 9 states (only)!? How about now, after 3 yrs in 2023, still 12 millions or up or down or equal? Thanks if you could face these questions.

Great point. Key is to have doctors on salary with their pay not bonused on restricting care.

no, Kaiser is corrupt and thank you for the video, but the corruption is beyond state and should be investigated at the federal level. I bet you if patients could get their stories together, and include my many personal experiences, it would make for one hell of a,(and very successful ),documentary or some special investigative news story. There's a whole lot of corruption and dirt going on than most people know, or think they know!

They don't care about you and all of their doctors are evil with no heart. At first I was clueless to this but if you go there they wont help you for real, they'll just send you home in pain. I had to go to a completely different outside doctor to find out what's wrong with me.

Kaiser does not care about their patients at all. I’ve been with them for 16+ years and finally looking into going elsewhere bc their standard of care has gone in the trash. Now they are allowing their pharmacy to dictate which RXs they will fill too. It’s all about the profits to them.

@@perfectlyimperfect7373 what are your choices or alternatives?

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… Kaiser Permanente was actually kicked out of the great State of Texas. They actually care for the wellbeing of their citizens…

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How can you support Kaiser they give all the money to the ceo not to the hard working doctors and nursss no bonuses to them and they discriminate them they are piece of shit people thinking they make more then any other hospital which is not true they are all bullshit

Correction: kaiser Permanente does not have patients. They have members. Have you any idea why nurse?

@@jupirena8429 sounds like you’re just a bitter *Member* if you’re not a Kaiser member then kudos to you that means you must be a satisfied member somewhere else and that’s the most important thing to you & your health. Last time, I check nobody is being force to be a Kaiser member that’s including myself, I’m given an option every year to switch out my health insurance. We patients/members will always have the right to move along until we’re happy till we find that hospital or clinic that makes us feel that we’re being listened & helped.

@@Foxexpress163 ... have you any idea why?

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I completely agree! They are snobby, moody, rude, bossy, and ungodly. Dont ever go there, instead just try to take care of your health by not smoking, drinking, or eating bad food. They never diagnose you properly and I think it done on purpose so you can keep coming back so they can keep billing you. It's all a business front like you said 👍💯

I agree. I have a long history of medical conditions and disability. The best Dr I ever had retired from Kaiser two years ago. He was fantastic for 12 years and the only reason I stayed at Kaiser. Kaiser started dictating to him how to provide care and he ended up feeling he failed as a dr bc he could no longer follow the Hippocratic oath, and retired. I’m still grieving the loss of that fantastic Dr.

​​​@@perfectlyimperfect7373 when you mentioned Hippocratic Oath, I cried like a baby, in heart, tearing endlessly...! 😪😭

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Close. Hopkins Dept of Medicine.

Gods question. They did buy a local HMO there… so that is an additional location for Kaiser.

@@ahealthcarez I think Kaiser is successful in WA state. They make a lot of money here off their clients without providing medical care. They made plenty of money off me and saved themselves $1400 by refusing me medical treatment. When you don't care if someone is disabled for a few years, so long as you get to keep $1400, I'll bet you make a lot of money.

yes, I was a Kaiser patient in California and was seen in Kaiser Washington on a visitors pass for 8 months. I had a totoally different experience there. There offices and pharmacies are nearly empty. The doctor talked to me for 45 minutes at each visit, they gave me a bunch of new patient gifts and I never had to wait longer than 10 minutes in pharmacy. I just kept forgetting to bring cash. The pharmacy doesn't take any type of card, only cash.

​​​​​​@@michaelwilde545 Fed. gov. gives MA (medicare advantage) plans each beneficiary per person annually up to or around $20k now 2023 ($15840/2021), so the value-based, integrated-health systems surely good at its first step in preventive cares, but how about later on, if patients get sick or really seriously? Incentives and bonus payouts, + % annual salaries increase on its employees mostly possible based on how this health field individual worked tirelessly and tightly followed the internally notorious footsteps (to the outside world that medical field is notoriously secretive - hospitals, doctors, nurses, facilities and, administrations) of, their strict guidelines, for which, some are to the public, some are, implying only, of unspeakable? Your example is a best eg., my personal experience lately of 2 to more cases, had justified my belief on you and others. My only one and the first one request for a specialist who repeatedly and loudly to downplay my severe and the sudden symptoms to justify I didn't need any further treatment which will be a surgery (to save his boss' costs). But if in other regular hospital or doctors, they will run variety of tests and suggest surgery immediately. To me personally, I would prefer conservative and alternative approaches first, which is the Kaiser's first step, but anything further, Kaiser failed, like your and my case. The specialist never asked and concerned why I had my urgent call and what's my extreme discomforts for coming over ... They just asked you to spend your own money for a pair of very deep and thick eye glasses (certainly some limited coverage) rather in higher costs if surgery, which Gov. Medicare might cover limited on the agreement that MA's willing to take it as "at risk". Regular Doctors jump to surgeries for higher profits from the beginning (greedy) vs Value based - integrated health model ignored your surgery necessities later on, also for their own higher profits, but saving their costs to properly treat patients. Who and which one is better? You decide. (Still try to learn more and dig it out more😢!)

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When i was healthy kaiser was great... but the minute I had a serious health injury I found obtaining proper tests and care through kaiser extremely difficult. And it wasn't through the fault of the doctors/nurses, but rather the adminstrators. When I switched to another health insurance I had no difficulties obtaining the right tests and proper care. Many of my co-workers shared the same experience. While it's certainly anyone's personal choice on what insurance to choose i personally would never advise anyone to choose kaiser as an option.

​@@darkbeansidhe5385 Which one is better can you specify ASAP if you don't mind? I had a real difficulty to obtain the one, the only one, and the first one from my PCP to a specialist, of struggling, lately, even on an urgent call bc unexpected symptoms, from KP! I normally don't see Drs at all bc so healthy in life. But when you aged gradually your eyes (others would be hearing issues) would lose vision acuity, and other eye problems and eye injuries. Not sure if it's this particular PCP's problems, or their internal restricted guidelines, or due to the "special treatment" toward me, only? Normally I used Aetna or Cigna PPO in life untill Medicare Advantage plans. Seemed lost freedom from PPO to see Drs on MA or other plans. The PPO choice is better when you r young or/& still healthy &/or wealthy. HMO seemed quite limited in your choices and better in your well being. The person above who favored KP was in a position for working for, not to be a patient's experience. Isn't true?

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