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Procuring Medical Recordsby Sharon Rushford You’ve all seen your medical records, right? It’s that file the nurse
puts in the holder on the door while you wait inside for your doctor. You wait
quietly and you hear your doctor at the door. He or she stops, retrieves the
file and sometimes you can hear him skim through it and other times he walks
right in and asks how you are doing today. The nurse has most likely already
taken your blood pressure and weight and has written it down on a new sheet
marked with today’s appointment date. You discuss your concerns for this visit
with your doctor and he jots down a few notes and you go on your way. The same
thing happens during a hospital stay or emergency room visit. There is a sheet
marked with the day’s date and doctors and nurses write down all sorts of
information on this sheet and sometimes other sheets that when combined with
your file make up your medical records. What happens though when something goes horribly wrong and medical malpractice occurs? What happens with your medical records then? Does everyone still write down all the pertinent information regarding their errors or do they leave out facts in order to cover up their mistakes? Or do they just leave it up to “Q & A” (which we were told was Quality & Assurance) to renovate the records to assure a favorable outcome should arbitration occur? From experience I can tell you that when you suspect medical malpractice, chances are Kaiser already knows it has occurred and is doing their best to keep the facts surrounding the incident from you. In our case it took several months for Kaiser to even admit they knew where the medical records were. It seems the easiest way to stall is to say the records are “lost”. Then after a few more months you are told they are “hopelessly lost”. It is not until you have spent a substantial amount of money paying your attorney to try to retrieve your records that some, but not all, of your records will be produced. They will be in complete disarray with no order of semblance what so ever. Many are photocopied so lightly they are virtually unreadable. The important documents have most likely already been identified and will be provided to you buried in a pile of papers so deep you probably will never find it, unless your attorney, at great expense, catalogs each document of the records provided. It is important to realize that in a case of medical malpractice, the medical record is the evidence. In a criminal case it would be unheard of for the accused to have custody of the evidence but in medical malpractice it is the standard. What if OJ had all the incriminating evidence in his case locked up in his house and told police he couldn’t find it? It’s absurd, but it is the reality in medical malpractice. Legislators must mandate that all patients are to receive an exact duplicate of their medical record as it happens and in no case should Kaiser attorneys or their Quality & Assurance get a copy of the medical records before an exact copy is provided to the patient. Anything less should be considered altered records. Sharon Rushford may be contacted at: From the desk of Jupirena Stein:  ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM For centuries those words
from the Hippocratic Oath have guided physicians in the care and treatment of their patients. This Oath became the nucleus of all
medical ethics. In its most compelling portions, it emphasizes the
profundity of the medical covenant, patient dignity, the
confidentiality of the transaction between doctor/patient, and the
physicians responsibility to guard against abuse or corruption of his
knowledge and his art of medicine . American Medical Association - (AMA) Principal of Medical Ethics Rule number 1 - A
physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with
compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. This part of My Story is so absurd it is hard to believe it but, this is all true. I
have spoken before about my findings that Kaiser doctors are treating
patients to an extreme level of lacking medical knowledge, (or it
seems) with disrespect, intolerance, and indignity. Here’s why. Dr.
Robert Wolgat diagnosed me (swollen right parotid gland) and told
me I needed to have this gland removed. I trusted him. I
did not see Dr. Wolgat, Kaiser’s ENT/Professor (“in charge
of my surgery” or so I thought) before my surgery, - at all. I
did not see him during my surgery because I was obviously under general
anesthetic. I have no idea if he was there or not. He said he was.Dr. Wolgat did not come to see me after I woke up, nor for those 2 days that I stayed in the hospital. The first thing I can remember after I woke up, was that I had the most devastating type of headache one can imagine, and Dr. Wild asking me to smile. “Smile..., Smile, I need you to smile for me.”Later on, I came to understand if I was be able to smile at that point in time, he would know his scalpel
did not “hit” my facial nerve. He was certainly worried about it. I
remember wondering why my head, my neck and part of my shoulders were
all wrapped up in cloth band aid. Why? I expected some sort of a simple
patch on my neck covering the small incision as it was explained to me
by Dr. Wolgat. After all, a Superficial parotidectomy was a superficial, simple and sort of short type of surgery. During
my hospital stay my family came to see me and so did Dr. Wild. On the
second day before I went home, I saw Dr. Wild for the very last time
until today as I write this letter (September 2007.) I asked him: “My head hurts badly, did everything go ok?” He answered:“
Yes, with the exception that at one point your blood was “squirting out
of your neck.”” I was so impressed with his words, it reminded me of
the movie M.A.S.H. Today I understand why my “blood was squirting out.” As I slept under general anesthetic, Dr. Wild was into my
vascular system, {away of his field of surgery - parotidectomy} without mine or my family’s knowledge, without medical need and without my consent. - Dr. Wild has committed a crime against my health. For the next 10 months, I was in and out of Kaiser doctors office. At my request, being sent from one to another to another doctor. All of them told me that I was physically ok. That
I was perhaps in need of psychiatric help because I could not accept
the fact that I was diagnosed with cancer. (acinic cell carcinoma, a
rare type of cancer at that time) All doctors lied to me about my “
injury.” They
“worked” carefully together, and hid this devastating
“vascular injury” from me and my family. Ten
days after my surgery Kaiser Permanente Pathology come up with the
diagnosis of a rare type of cancer named Acinic Cell Carcinoma. “It
was found” inside my parotid gland, with the involvement of 1 lymph
node. When Dr. Wolgat told me I needed surgery, the first thing in my mind was cancer. But, Dr. Wolgat put me at easy. “This is not cancer at all. I am not even going to do a needle aspiration test.” He too, committed a crime against my health. Then, my “medical care” continued under KP physicians. THE RADIOLOGISTS: These doctors listed below, interpreted many of my x-rays. Two
of them were taken months apart but their report have the exactly same
wording only the dates had been changed as if there is a format for
these things. None of them ever once mentioned in their reports that my sternocleiomastoid muscle was gone and my shoulder bones had fallen drastically out of place. note: Kaiser’s MRI report dated April 26, 2000, written by Dr. Larry Edward Yeager, does say that my right sternocleiomastoid muscle was resected. I wonder how this major information against them, slipped by Kaiser Permanente’s attorneys. Dr. Deborah Anne Kass ---------- License G40970 Dr. Larry Edward Yeager-----------LN C39192 Dr. Daniel Edward Siedler----------LN G49122 Dr. Richard Joseph Gabbay-------LN G37772 Dr. Chi-Wai Gerry Kwok------------LN A50513 THE NEUROLOGIST: Dr. Jeffrey Javerbaum---------------LN G33682 On
February 28th, 2000, he did an EMG ( needle electromyography) study on
me to properly diagnose and answer my questions what was happening to
my sternocleiomastoid muscle ( the big north/south muscle on the neck,)
was it getting atrophied ? My sister was with me.Remember: Kaiser's MRI of April shows that this muscle was dissected by Dr. Wild. His report says: “ no atrophy or weakness.” Clinically, I suspect that this is quite possibly a brachial neuritis ( BN is a rare syndrome of unknown etiology affecting mainly the lower motor neurons of the brachial plexus and/or individual nerves or nerve branches) and he continues: - which is reported post-op (after surgery) in any location. It amazes me how much Kaiser likes to diagnose me with rare cancer and rare nerve condition. Dr.
Javerbaum in front of me and my sister tampered with the computer,
changing the computer’s exam results. Then, he handled me a copy of
this EGG results (which I still have) and said: See? There is nothing wrong with you. He recommended: Shoulder sling, try tegretol (which is also an anticonvulsant often prescribed as a mood stabilizer for those with bipolar disorder ( manic depression.) THE RHEUMATOLOGIST: Dr. Alan David Lash------------LON A35820 Dr. Lash injected cortisone on my shoulder. I still don’t know why. I insisted that he would not. At one point he said to me: How are you ever going to know what is causing your problems? This is a process of elimination. When I asked him about the “missing muscles on my neck and shoulder”, just a few inches away from his eyes, he said to me: “...I do not see whatever you see.” THE PATHOLOGISTS: Dr. Sudha Krishnamurth Rao---------LN A54908 DR. L.T. Smyth--------------------------LN G40382 These
2 idiots, diagnosed me with cancer in one lymph node that does not
exist, causing me to have radiation treatment needlessly. THE ENT’s ( Ear, Nose and Throat doctor) Dr. Harold William Korol--------------------------LN G17963 He
was Kaiser Redwood City ENT Chief at that time. One would think that he
better than anyone else, would know what was causing me to getting
sicker and sicker after my superficial parotidectomy surgery. I never expected him to lie to me and on top of that be so cruel.He told me that I was physically fine and insisted I would go see a psychiatrist. Dr. Robert Alexander Wolgat, ENT----------LN G47484 He is the doctor that told me “ your gland is swollen and need to be surgically removed. These things almost never get better” and I trusted him... Dr. Wolgat was the teaching ENT surgeon for KP Redwood City, California. 17 years of experience, he said. He did not supervise Dr. Wild and I suspect he was probably not even present during my surgery. After my surgery, I saw him several times. Each and every time he lied to me about “my injury.” He repeatedly said to me “...you will get better...just be patient. You will get better.” Over and over, for about 10 months. THE SURGEON - Dr Timothy Wilfred Wild MD, DDS, ENT -LN -A61573 He signed my surgery report and was the designated surgeon per KP pre-op records (before surgery) He was a resident at KP Redwood City, California, at the time of my surgery. It is beyond me that a dentist/doctor, specializing in ENT at KP, - working hard to get his Board Certification, can commit such of devastating medical crime and think that this type of “ thing” is acceptable. On his surgical report, Dr. Wild describe how was his involvement with my vascular system this way: A large vein? Didn’t he know its name? “and then, there was a large vein sitting on top of the trunk of the nerve, I dissected it and sutured ligated it.” Mr. Bruce Albion Bailey, my former attorney “missed” this chance to have a blood vessels ultrasound taken on my right neck. He
chose instead, to claim the wrong injury, -the non-existing severing
of my right spinal accessory nerve. This way he could explain in court
the “atrophy of my right sternocleiomastoid muscle.”The one Dr. Timothy Wilfred Wild dissected during surgery. This makes me literally sick. Today, Dr. Timothy Wilferd Wild is fully employed by KP Vallejo Northern California and he is the Chief ENT at the KP Vacaville's Medical Center - 707/453-5000. Please, call him and ask for his side to this
story. THE PHYSIATRIST - ( a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating problems of the musculoskeletal (muscles and bones) system.) Except for this physiatrist from kaiser Permanente . His name is : DR. William Lawrence Firch---------------------------------------LN G61851 How should I start talking about this quack? Please. By the time I saw Dr. Firch, my sternocleiomastoid muscle was completely gone. My shoulder bones had dropped, I was having problems breathing, swallowing and my heartbeat was already out of rhythm. Dr. Firch ignored me. He
had in his possession all my x-rays, mri and ct’s that showed all that
I have described above. I wish you could read his report. He said: “...she
has had electro diagnostic evaluation through Dr. Javerbaum ( the
neurologist that did my electromyography and tampered with the computer
to “change” its print out”) ...which did not demonstrated specific abnormality.” And he continues: “...this pain she feels is all in her mind “ He
recommended that I take Valium . One would think he would be interested
in CCing his report to my neurologist or my orthopedic surgeon right? No. Dr. Firch CC’s his report to my physical therapist and my gynecologist. Amazing! Last but not least, THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON DR. John Bordy-----------------------------------------------LN G13812 After reviewing my x-rays “...I recommend she sees a chiropractor.” NOTE: By the time I saw Dr. Bordy , I was very sick. It became clear to me that something was dead wrong with my health and it was even more clear to me that Kaiser Permanente’s doctors were NOT going to help me with my deteriorating health. I never went back to Kaiser again. On October 6, 2000, I saw Dr. Michael Cohen a private neurologist ( outside of Kaiser. ) That day, Medicare started paying for
Kaiser’s medical crime and to date still is. I requested crying and begging him to tell me the truth, what is happening to my body?He
told me that my right sternocleiomastoid muscle had been removed. “You
must have had a very large tumor in your neck.” His diagnosis, - a
possible nerve trauma. I decided to get an attorney’s opinion of
this “nerve trauma” . So, I called the Blackman Law Group in
Burlingame, California. 650-692-8124 Unbeknown to me at that time, the corruption and fraud (by attorney Bruce Albion Bailey) continued... ... and the time passed....There comes a day on an injured patient’s life that we begin asking questions.What is happening to my body? Why am I loosing my balance? How about this pain, where is it coming from? Then
you begin to think that your doctor must have done something wrong and
you will realize that he/she will not tell you the truth. Much less, any other doctor that you may see afterwards.
You will soon realize that your struggles to find out the truth and to get proper medical care, -have just begun. Take a look how Wikipedia describes patient’s blacklist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist If you decide you will be determined and will do anything to find out the truth, you will be facing unfair, undignified down right sad days, months and years, and will face the possibility of being black listed by the medical community. Literally
thousands of patients go under this kind of abuse from Kaiser
Permanente doctors and other doctors who will not get involved with
your care.I know many patients personally that have a similar story to tell. Have you any idea how Kaiser and doctors in general can get away with such horrendous situation?Well, here’s my opinion:Because the Department Of Managed Health Care in California, and as well, the Medical Board of California, allows them to. But of course, they could prove me wrong. ALL Kaiser Permanente doctors that I mention here plus all others, are either obscenely incompetent, or they were aware of my true physical problems but chose to cover up this medical crime.It is either one or the another. There is just no two ways about it. Jupirena CC: Open letter This
material contains my own opinion based on my notes, my recollection of
occurrences from memory and literally hundreds of my medical records
from Kaiser Permanente and others. Jupirena may be reached via e-mail at: j_u_stein@yahoo.com | Kaiser’s Thrive Campaign and Enrollment by Region by Miguel Perez-Lizano  Kaiser’s Thrive advertising campaign was launched in 2004.In the last newsletter we showed that Kaiser’s membership has been essentially stagnant since 2001. In this newsletter we take a look at membership by region and the possible effectiveness of Kaiser’s Thrive campaign. The figures are for the years 2005 and 2006 when the effect of the Thrive campaign should have been evidenced. (Enrollment figures below are given in thousands.)
Again, readers should be cautioned that Kaiser’s figures may not be
accurate and reliable. For example, in the latest enrollment figure for the
Oregon/Washington region Kaiser’s enrollment was given as 445,000 members. We do
not know if this results from an error, a difference in Kaiser’s reporting
methods or a significant collapse in
enrollment for this region. From the table above, it appears that Kaiser lost members in two regions
( Kaiser’s Thrive campaign costs about $40 million/year. Given the net increase in enrollment of 179,000 members, each new member came at a cost of about $225 in advertising funds. Given Kaiser’s cost structure, this is still very profitable to Kaiser easily recovered through premiums and member copays. So while it appears that Thrive has not been a rip roaring success for Kaiser, it has not been a significant expense compared to overall revenues ($31 billion) and may have succeeded in curtailing enrollment losses. The more telling figures will be for 2007 to see if regional membership declines spread. It has always been my opinion that Kaiser will only improve its health care delivery when their membership and revenues decline and they are pressured into action. Otherwise, their powerful lobbying will continue to hinder delivery of quality health care and occasional slaps on the wrist by regulatory agencies will continue to have minimal or no impact on improvement of patient care. Members must educate themselves and realize that there are other health care options. Miguel may be reached via e-mail at: Update on Medical Board and DMHC's response to patient complaintsBy Hillarie Levy I was asked to participate in an executive meeting at Kaiser Woodland
Hills with Dr. Shirley Suda MD, Area Medical Director, Linda St Clair,
Medical Group Administrator and Cathy Casas, Executive Director, on August 31
concerning violations of Health and Safety Code 7154(b) (not following
transplant protocol-enlisting organs from cancer patients) and California
Probate Code 4733(a) (ignoring dying patients wishes in their Medical Directive,
a legal document).
The documents, demonstrating clear and convincing evidence of these
occurrences can be viewed at Robynlibitsky.kaiserpapers.info.
Their shocking response, assuring me their organ procurement process is
according to proper protocol, and again ignoring the Probate Code violation,
makes it clear that the DMHC's fine of 6 million has had no effect!
By refusing to address these violations, several kaiser families have and
will continue to suffer the "distress" that Ms Casas states in her letter, "we
deeply regret."
I will continue with updates in regards to the Medical Board and DMHC's
response to Kaiser's continuing inappropriate response to patient complaints.
Are these State entities serious in regards to ensuring Kaiser obeys the
law? Only their future actions will give us the answer.
Hillarie Levy (Robyn Libitsky's mother) Hillarie Levy may be reached at: From Dina Padilla -  Is your medical condition written correctly in your medical charts by your or any other physician? My first introduction into false information written about patients started in the late 1980's after filing a workr compensation claim. Kaiser is it's own worker compensation insurance carrier and I was sent to an out- side QME-Qualified Medial-legal examiner who also performs subrosa-who is watching every move you make with out your permission or knowledge. I've seen many medical-legal reports that do not reflect the patient's injuries or medical conditions. These reports are all very similar which shows a preconcerted effort to denigrate and discredit the patient in order to deny medical care. These QME doctors take down your medical and family history and
falsely conclude your medical condition. Kaiser's injured workers were
and are still subjected to many unnecssary QME examinations which
conclude conditions that are either a mere fraction of the patient's
real condition and or relate your injuries to past conditions without
any medical evidence, thus nullifying your real injuries for
compensation. This causes PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is
also called litigation neurosis. This can become part of the injured
worker's claim but is not filed by worker compensation attorneys.
Kaiser doctors do the same thing even with employees
reported medical conditions that may or not have been related to work
related injuries. What has happened is that employees were over
medicated with pyschotropic drugs, pain killers, nsaids,
anti-depressants, anti-psychotic and sleeping meds instead. We had many
employees on these drugs while working and then supervisors would
discipline these workers for not being able to "perform" their jobs
or accused of being on drugs or drunk. It still happens to Kaiser
injured workers and they are encouraged to file stress claims to
further discredit their injuries by Kaiser.
The real injuries were not diagnosed or treated. Many of the
employees injuries were repetitive stress related injuries such as
Carpel Tunnel, Thorasic Outlet syndrome, lower lumbar, neck and
knee injuries, etc. Many of the employees also had fibromyalgia and
chemical exposure that was not even considered for any treatment.
Harassement was business of the day by manangement which starts at
the top, created and enforced by Kaiser doctors. Between 1990 and 1994
there were at least a half a dozen employees who commited suicide while
on overprescribed drugs by Kaiser.
The next
problem for these employee-patients were that their
non-related work conditions were not being properly medically
diagnosed or treated. Employees at Kaiser were given free
medical care as part of their wage package but their medical needs were
treated with mind altering medications other then
the correct lab,
imagery or surgery treaments that they were enititled to. Many
employee-patients had to rely on outside medical care such as
spousal medical
care plans, medi-cal or Medicare. Many of these employees
ended up on
Social Security and Medicare rather then being paid worker compensation
benefits. This outrageous state and federal financial cost
shifting
causes the taxpayer to foot the bill because at times it was
too late
for the care of employees medical conditions which had worsened,
just like
their work-related injuries. When a patient goes to their employer today just as in the past, many
outside doctors do not reflect the real injuries or medical
conditions but only what will reflect positively for the self-insured
employer like Kaiser. The employee/patient loses every time. This was
finally brought up at the Fraud Assesment Commission on 9-11-2007. That
doctors are now being "encouraged" to write down the proper
diagnosis.
Isn't that rather astounding? The most egregious in all of this is that the patients suffer many
times because the injuries or medical conditions are purposely
neglected. Many acts of medical malpractice have been going on for
years. The network of QME'S, IME'S AME'S and doctors who rely on
insurance companies like Kaiser will perform the wrong treatment or
surgery which in many instances exacerbates the real injury. These docs
can charge fees forever, while the patient suffers needless medical
care that cripples them. Be quaranteed that the medical maiming will
not be compensated to the injured. The many years of judicial court
decisions, who are pro-employer-Kaiser proves it.
The information that is wrongfully written, created new
quidelines which is now used in ACOEM and utilization review guidelines
to deny people their medical care as well as other work related
benefits that are owed to the patients under the state and federal constitution.
The AMA is included. And so are companies like DOW Chemical and
GlaxoSmithKine Drug Company.
SB899 allowed the malpractice of the past to be carried on as illegal law for the present as well as the future. It is an Ex Post Facto law that continues the denials and neglect of
medical care via the insurance paid doctors in writing their false
medical reports.
Dina Padilla
Notes from Vickie Travis Michael
Moore is correct. American Health Care will not get better until
the insurance companies are out of the picture. Whether they are
"for-profit" or "not-for-profit" has little to do with it. Being
"Not-for-profit" has nothing to do with honesty, integrity nor quality
of care. "Not-for-profit" just means they have tax breaks and
that they must donate a portion of their income or services to a
charity. That charity can even be one that they own themselves.
That charity, at least in California can also be a government
agency that ordered them to pay a fine. The fine qualifies as a
donation for some convoluted reason. There is also talk of having Medicare regulate everything. Unfortunately as we have learned a lot of insurance executives who are still indebted financially to their old companies are in well placed government positions. See: "Former Kaiser physicians that take government or related jobs may have a serious conflict of interest."http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/ kaiserconflictofinterest.html and http://selfincrimination.kaiserpapers.info/ This
past month I have been hearing a lot about how great Kaiser is from
those competing for elected positions. I haven't heard this much
political talk about health care since the day before Rummy said in
2001 "I don't want to hear any more about patient rights. We have
a war to take care of now," quickly nipping in the bud any chance the
people of this country may have ever had. So things got worse. In fact, in California it got so bad that the regulators did even less to enforce any laws. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), no novice on the subject, calls universal coverage "not only a moral and health imperative, but an economic and jobs imperative as well." She is correct with that statement. In the off chance that an honest program could be created it would open up the job market dramatically. More than likely though what really would happen is that it would be run by the same bad guys as today, ensuring with their "insurance tactics" that they continue to have jobs and the rest of the industry will continue to be short changed. When the California Department of Managed Health Care was set in place, back in 2000, I was told by one of their lead attorneys that the agency had hired former executives of HMO's because - "Who better to know the industry?". I thought that was a conflict of interest then and know that it is today. This
guy went out of his way to tell me "How the big boys take care of these
problems. How they take care of these little problems for the
little people" He also told me that the department and the
insurance companies work out these problems on the golf course or in
other social venues rather than in the office. I mentioned to him
that his arrogance was showing. This agency is supposed to be
about government regulation to protect the people not scoring a big
contract for an insurance company or securing employment with one at a later date. It is just one big party after another for these people that are in charge and one big headache for the front line honest employees of the same agency that want to actually help people. The
state of Oregon a couple of years ago had a fairly decent plan (Measure
23) that would have eliminated the health insurance industry
involvement. Kaiser and Blue Cross
spent a lot of money defeating it with bad publicity and agressive
lobbying. Kaiser claimed that no one could manage a Universal Health
Care Program. As soon as that Oregon bill was defeated Kaiser
announced in Washington D.C., on January 1, that only they could manage a Universal
Health Program for this entire country and that we all desperately needed
one. I guess that the Kaiser PR people didn't figure the rest of the country could read about the Oregon news. Kaiser has since stepped up their agressive lobbying and passing out of money to legislators. Today
just about any legislator is somehow indebted to Kaiser and Permanente
money. That is the Kaiser way after all and has been since the Six Companies Disaster. Henry Kaiser made it clear he never wanted to let that happen again - the getting caught part I mean. For months Kaiser has been publicizing that they and California Governor Schwartzenegger have worked out a deal for California Universal Health Care. I called up the Governor's office and asked about this plan. They didn't know anything about it and at that time said that there was no plan - just ideas. It seems to be just "More Kaiser hype." Today the Governor does have a plan and it is online at: http://www.fixourhealthcare.ca.gov/plan It is complicated enough to have plenty of loopholes for special interests to work around and sure sounds very similar to the Kaiser plan. What a surprise! But
then Kaiser always puts the cart before horse. That was a Henry
Kaiser teaching - Create a Need in people's minds and then
get the contract by underbidding - then figure out how to fill the
order. That philosophy didn't always work out (The Kaiser/Hughes associations comes to mind with the Spruce Goose) but did work enough times to not change their corporate ways. Here is how well Kaiser's plans have gone over in Great Britain for taking on their Universal Care - They got caught! Here is an article from the September 24, 2007 issue of The Guardian that pretty well sums up what Kaiser has already done to Great Britain and how many of the people there have quickly caught on - http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,,2175838,00.html http://www.kaiserpapers.info/godsavebritainfromkaiser.html The author of the above article is Allyson Pollock - Prof Allyson Pollock is Head of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. http://www.health.ed.ac.uk/CIPHP/staff/pollock.htm If you have read the above referenced article you will see that Kaiser tactics again have accomplished what they intended. "Create a Need and make a lot of money" They had a good system in Great Britain, in fact a system better than they realized until Tony Blair listened to sales people that promised him the world. Now they have a mess but not as big a one as we in the U.S. do today. Of course that was intended so the people there would want Kaiser to swoop in, putting on a show of saving the day with false promises. Remember the Kaiser method of "Create a Need?" Jayant Patel, the physician that was caught killing patients in Bundaburg, Queensland, Australia pulled the same thing there. In Bundaburg he involved a number of people in Kaiser type/government schemes that ending up costing people their lives for personal financial gain. He also employed Kaiser business tactics successfully by involving others until a brave whistleblower came forward and talked to Rob Messenger who was then the Shadow Minister of Parliament. Then it all started to unravel for Jayant and his cohorts. That
type of business practice is an old Kaiser formula that was developed
from the original teachings of Napolian Hill and Andrew Carnegie during
the 1930's. Napolian never said to go out and swindle anyone,
much less an entire country. Neither did Andrew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich Both did warn of the consequences from dishonest actions. Eventually there will be negative consequences no matter how Kaiser tries to hide the dishonest actions. All that is really happening in this country is that some legislators need a lot of money and will accept it from anywhere to finance their campaigns. They then will say anything to please their benefactors, just so they can get elected - even if it in the end harm will be brought to the people of this country. Today on the Oprah program, two Kaiser fronts, Uwe Rheinhart and Karen Ignagni were speaking guests along with Michael Moore and Linda Peeno about American Health Care. (If the Kaiser links disappear and you can't find them with a search on Google or the KP web site contact us and we will provide you with a copy.) In between the Kaiser Permanente THRIVE commercial we watched Karen squirm because she was questioned about some of her statements which did not sound very accurate to anyone that had passed third grade math and remembered their core social studies. So again, Michael Moore is correct. American Health Care will not get better until the insurance companies are out of the picture. But I really think that all that is going to happen is that the people will be told to eat some more cake and put their blinders back on so they won't see what is happening right before their eyes.. Vickie may be reached at: vickie@kaiserpapers.info  Commentary from
Dr. Charles Phillips regarding the relevance of -
Article K of the Medical Service Agreement between Kaiser Plan and
Permanente Physicians.http://drphillips.kaiserpapers.info/kansaswaxman.html "The relationship between PMG
and Kaiser-KC is a defacto 'partnership.'
Kaiser Permanente's (the Defendants collectively) literature, internal
documents and internal memorandum, and even its public statements and
advertising
are full of descriptions of this relationship as a 'partnership.' The
relationship
is a 'symbiotic' one and one of 'interdependence,' a relationship where
each depends on the other. Kaiser Permanente handles the
'business
side' and PMG handles the 'medicine side' (although those divisions are
murky at best, if any divisions could be said to exist).
Kaiser -
K.C., Kaiser-California, and PMG documents repeatedly refer to
'partnership,'
'joint responsibility,' 'joint control,' 'joint management,' 'joint
efforts,'
and 'joint coordination.'" Dr. Phillips may be reached via e-mail at: CPhil49401@aol.com © 2007 Kaiser Papers |
