KAISER HOSPICE and EUTHANASIA PROGRAM STORIES

http://www.kaiserpapers.info/hospfraud.html

Kaiser and Euthanasia Cases
...came down to yet another Kaiser HMO doctor-administrator, Robert Richardson, who approved giving a lethal overdose
to this elderly woman under pressure from her family. Kaiser Permanente is a fully capitated HMO with a profit sharing
plan for its doctors. Dr. Richardson may or may not have directly thought of the economic advantages to his organization and his own profit sharing plan in making his decision about Mrs. Cheney. Nevertheless, the existence of an economic incentive program put in place purposefully to induce doctors to reduce medical costs, an incentive system that in this
case favored doctor- assisted suicide over expensive medical care, did exist and should be noted.

Former Kaiser Doctor Talks To ABC7
Claims Many Medical Mistakes
By Debora Villalon
From: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=3626588
Nov. 11 - KGO - A doctor who once worked at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco claims preventable 
medical mistakes happened too often at that hospital. He says cost-cutting moves put patients' lives in danger, and 
when he tried to warn Kaiser, he was fired.
mirrored for public information at:  http://www.kaiserpapers.info/abc7.html

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Kaiser Permanente patient died after receiving the wrong medication at one of the company's hospitals, the second patient recently reported to have died under similar circumstances at the facility, state health 
regulators said.
from:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13124008.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/kpabovethelaw.html

Malpractice and Negligent Medical Care Stories

From Money Magazine - January 2007

It took 13 doctor visits and several misdiagnoses before Hillarie Levy's daughter, Robyn Libitsky was finally diagnosed  accurately................

..........Levy's advice for anyone fighting the health care system?  - Read more at:

Mirrored: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/moneymagazine.htmlWhat Ails Kaiser
Kaiser has faced at least 20 wrongful death suits in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990. California state officials are investigating four deaths in a Richmond hospital.
Texas Attorney General Dan Morales says the state has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke Kaiser's license. Issues include quality-of-care concerns and $71 million in losses... 

October 31, 2005
Los Angeles Attorney - B. Casey Yim, of the law firm Murchison and Cumming, LLP accuses Los Angeles Times 
reporter of misquoting him.  Was the intent of Mr.Yim's writing to cast a shadow on the veracity of the entire article 
or is he sincere?
See:  http://www.kaiserpapers.info/yim.html
in the October 23, 2005 - How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed?
Originally from:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business
mirrored at for public information historical purposes:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/hillarieandrobyn.html
Related story at:
http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html

and
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/robynl.html

From The Simi Valley Acorn
http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html
and
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/acorn.html
October 28, 2005 - Simi Valley woman wants daughter’s doctors publicly named for misdiagnoses
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com 

October 23, 2005 - How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed?
Originally from:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business
mirrored at for public information historical purposes:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/hillarieandrobyn.html
A mother whose daughter died after Kaiser physicians missed her cancer is fighting to change a law that let the HMO report only one of the practitioners to the state.
By Debora Vrana
Times Staff Writer

Medical arbitration process can be costly 
Harvey Frey, a retired radiation oncologist in California, doesn't buy that. A patients' advocate, Frey is spearheading a proposed ballot initiative -- The Voluntary Health Plan Arbitration Act of 2004 -- that would give Californians a choice of how to resolve future health-care disputes. 

Eugene Guevara- Dr. Reynaldo Hernandez, who works in the hospital's urology department, was in stable condition at the hospital Sunday after being shot three times, said Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman Reyna del Haro.

Everything Else

Informational links and news stories on Kaiser Permanente Hospital SARS Outbreaks

The second Kaiser Family Foundation survey of Health Care in South Africa

HMO's Prescription for Change: Flexibility

Help Fight Medicare Fraud

To get top care, get pushy - If your health plan won't send you to a leading hospital, seek allies.

Kaiser Permanente Child Experiment
NOTICE OF PENDING CIVIL ACTION OVER LOS ANGELES COUNTY KAISER PERMANENTE MEASLES VACCINE TRIAL

Is Kaiser Senior Advantage Really the Best for You?

Eleven Unethical Managed Care Practices Every Patient Should Know About
 (With emphasis on mental health care) Please copy and distribute this document widely.

The HMO DeathWatch

Clinical Evidence: Creation, Assessment, and Implementation

Emerging Bone Problems In HIV-Infected Patients
Dan has been living through a nightmare of bone failure and hip replacement surgery with a reluctant HMO (Kaiser), and inexperienced doctors.

Medlaw Recent Opinions

Unsanitary Practices Stories

More dirty scopes at Kaiser used on patients news coverage

Bad Physician Coverup Stories

An Undisciplined Doctor Why Wasn't He Stopped Sooner? - Dr. Michael McEnany now former chief of 
cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center

An Undisciplined Doctor - Michael McEnany continued operating after peers questioned his competency
As part of his resignation deal, according to California officials, Kaiser agreed to terminate McEnany's practice review and not file 
a report to the medical board of California, as the hospital was required to do. McEnany set up shop in Wisconsin and continued to
maim medicine. 
A California Whistle Blower brought this to the Medical Board who finally conducted an investigation.  Because of Kaiser's cover 
up to protect their reputation patient's continued to be at risk. This case continues to show that the medical establishment will blindly
trust the word of a fellow doctor over the word of other witnesses, and that the medical profession cannot adequately police itself."

 Jan 5, 2006 5:50 pm US/Pacific
Kaiser South Bay Patients' Information Stolen
Another inspiring tale of how secure the Kaiser patient information is.
Letters carrying identity theft warnings have been sent to 25,000 patients who have been treated at Kaiser Permanente’s South Bay Medical Center, after two contract employees were arrested on suspicion of stealing their personal information.

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_005205257.html
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/kpsbinfo.html

Note:  The following news story was a Kaiser planted story.  It was done as a PR move to cover up/deflect from their own HIPAA violation and their need to blame someone else.  The woman in the article really is innocent of this breach of patient information but her name has been smeared by Kaiser anyway.  The truth is the information had been online for years and Kaiser never cared about it before it was brought to the attention of HIPAA. I have first hand knowledge of this entire thing and that is why I am openly writing this now.  It was wrong, it was unfair and the actions taken by Kaiser were totally uncalled for.  A good investigative reporter should be covering this story and shedding bright light on the entire matter.

Kaiser Permanente warns of patient info breach
OAKLAND, Calif. Kaiser Permanente is warning 140 Northern Californian residents that a disgruntled former 
employee has posted confidential information about them on her Internet site.

Video News recap on NBC 11

Fox Network Coverage

Nonprofit health council sues Kaiser over medical disclosures
The California Consumer Health Care Council has sued the Kaiser Foundation over what it says is inappropriate disclosure of 
private medical records.
The council contends that when Kaiser learns of a suit or potential suit by a patient, its legal department opens and studies that 
patient's private medical records without notifying the patient. This alleged review by Kaiser's legal department is inappropriate, 
said the council, because Kaiser's legal employees have no role in the patient's health care. 

"If a patient has a claim against Kaiser for negligently cutting off a little finger, why should a clerk in Kaiser's legal department be 
able to review the patient's entire medical file, which might include information on unrelated sexual, psychiatric or personal 
problems ...?" asked Martin Blake, one of the lawyers who filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court for the council on Monday. 

John Metz, the chairman of the council, said that Kaiser has put its own legal interests above the protection of its patients' privacy. 
"It is just wrong," he said in a statement

13 things your health insurer doesn't want you to know

And how do you cut the number of patient days in half that quickly? Vogt proposed that Kaiser dump its chest-pain protocol (which saves lives by early identification of heart attacks), because the protocol ``tripl[ed] our hospital days.'' 

Kaiser to Offer Savings Accounts For Lower-Cost Health Coverage
By RHONDA L. RUNDLE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - November 15, 2004; Page B6
Also at: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/hsa.html
I think that their non profit status and advertising on how much they care is a fraud because of the following statement:
...says Dr. Southam: "If all we offer at Kaiser is comprehensive coverage, then all of the sick people go to Kaiser and everyone else goes to the other plans."

Colorado, Georgia and the Northwest is the main testing ground for Kaiser patients.  Probably because they are very 
small population areas for Kaiser and it is easier to see what the public will and will not be suckered into.  Beware 
people in these areas. As with other Kaiser programs this may not turn out to be exactly what the rest of the country 
is calling an HSA.

Kaiser Health Connect - Kaiser's profits take turn for the worse
The above article is from 2003 - We will be doing a review of their recent gigantic upturn indicated in the top article 
and how they really did it.  It is all just on paper and nothing really has changed.

'The primary benefit of operating lease accounting is that neither the building nor the associated acquisition debt is recorded on
Kaiser’s balance sheet. Additionally, depreciation expense is not recorded, though this is partially offset by the fact that the entire lease payment is recorded as rent expense. Thanks to this structure, Kaiser was able to efficiently finance the acquisition of an essential building without weakening the company’s balance sheet.'

The above article is from 1998.  If the company needed to cook the books to get the public to invest in their bonds then in my opinion that is a very bad investment.  If they weren't truthful to the investor then why would anyone want to deal with them anytime in the future.

Considering how many patients died from the Vioxx experiment which was conducted on the public and how long it took for Kaiser or anyone to come out with the information about how deadly that medication is I wonder why the Department of Defense  has hired Kaiser to study the heart complications for the smallpox vaccination which is mandatorily given to all military personnel, including reservists.All of which is paid for by the Centers for Disease Control  I would think that they want information that would be useful and not something hidden from people that actually need to know how to help our servicemen.
See page 11 of online report.

#   Kaiser’s 1993 profits were so high that dozens of pages of memos were exchanged between high-level administrators discussing how to explain these profits to its workers whose jobs were being cut, and to its patients whose hospitals were being closed. One sample: "As much as possible, present 1993 financial results in context so that they don’t conflict with current budget/layoff imperatives." (California Nurses Association)

HMOs are complaining that Kaiser deliberately undercut rivals' prices to grab market share, then found itself unable to make money on the new business. California Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro claimed that Kaiser has diverted funds from patient care to pay for advertising and marketing, management consultants and mergers and acquisitions "for the sole purpose of dominating the HMO market." (LA Times, 2-14-98)

In June, 1998, Kaiser announced an alliance with AvMed, Florida's largest non-profit, with 400,000 members.  (CNA communication)  What is important is not only the size and pace of the acquisitions, but also that they were non-profit, with a tradition of membership service and/or involvement. Kaiser wants a patient base more involved with its HMO, more likely to identify with it, and more willing to accept its cuts.

CORPORATE HEALTH CARE 
This is a web site from Australia that is devoted to exploring the privatisation and corporatisation of health care. 
They examine the oldest health and aged care marketplace in the world - the USA. They show quite clearly that 
its has failed and that the victims of the disturbing systems which resulted are US citizens. I suggest that you use 
your Google Bar on this page and type in Kaiser and then hit the Search Site bar.  This site has documented years 
and years of Kaiser abuse on the citizens of this country and presented, with a clear eye, a quite often different 
perspective of the situation than we have here. 

Prozac May Be Hazardous to Your Health Insurance - by Vicki Lankarge
If you've had even a mild bout of depression, you may find buying an individual health insurance policy a challenge. Here's how to succeed in the process.

Kaiser Retaliation Stories 
 

Kaiser squeezes out their own doctors that do not get with the cost saving program.  How Kaiser nails a doctor whistleblower or just someone that cares for the patients more than the doctor stockholders. Or even worse, by Kaiser standards, someone that would dare to invest in the competition.   Yes this article tells about the doctor stockholders, the ones that want to cut patient costs so they can make more money. ...doctors' rights to due process are violated from the get-go at Kaiser because the chief of staff -- the person took disciplinary action against the doctor in this case -- is the person who selects the panel that reviews the matter.Furthermore, senior doctors at Kaiser are shareholders in a medical group that has an exclusive contract to work at Kaiser hospitals, posing an inherent conflict of interest..."Now, you have huge health systems with corporate employees and the system is being used to get rid of troublesome doctors," he said. Harassment or substandard care - http://www.kaiserpapers.info/kaisersqueezeoutdocs.html

Image isn't Kaiser's only problem 
The Rocky Mountain News reported Aug. 3 that Kaiser Permanente's research shows its patients think the health maintenance organization is a huge, bureaucratic system in which patients don't have a personal physician and get mediocre care ("Kaiser launches ads to help ailing image").

On August 13, 2004 the San Francisco Business Journal printed a retraction to a story they covered on The Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee that was untrue.It is as follows:

The Aug 13th edition of SF Business Times printed the following under "Corrections&Amplifications" on the bottom of page six:
"The Aug 6-12 "Talk of the Town" column erroneously referred to "hacking" in describing the acquisition of Kaiser Permanente marketing materials by the Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee, a critic of the healthcare company. The documents were retrieved using a publicly accessible Kaiser website, though the group says it discovered a "security hole" on that site. Kaiser says its computer security was not breached."

For unknown reasons, people had written letters to this paper making claims that we had hacked (committed an illegal act) into the Kaiser Permanente web site.  The people doing this signed my name, Vickie Travis to their letters.  Well, I didn't write any letters to this newspaper nor did myself or any member of our organization do anything illegal.  What is presented here is a letter to the paper from myself and Sharon Rushford, our Board Secretary correcting their erroneous information.
:http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/08/16/editorial5.html

Response from Dr. Charles Phillips on the December 2004 MSNBC Kaiser paid advertisement on a newsprogram "Kaiser bucks the HMO trend" -http://www.kaiserpapers.info/msnbcsellout.html - To story: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/msnbcsellout.html

December 22, 2004 - The anniversary of passing for my father-in-law, Everett Earl Travis, who was a war hero and who was wounded at The Battle of the Bulge and who did teach us all that we do not ever disgrace our country if we expect to look at ourselves in a mirror again without seeing shame.  The following web page is for him as he is the inspiration.
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/vickiestatement.html
We believe that Kaiser and The-For-Profit Permanente in order to embed (Kaiser's word not ours) themselves in the minds of the American Public have had planted at MSNBC (which is heavily financed by the pharmaceutical industry) during their prime time news ...
If our own President's (G.W. Bush) state (Texas) didn't want them around I don't think that the rest of the country does either. 

PATIENT DUMPING STORIES BY THE KAISER PERMANENTE SYSTEM

Alleged Skid Row Dumping Is Captured on Videotape

mirrored for historical purposes at: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/dumpedreyes.html

Video Said to Capture Skid Row Dumping
From:  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-032206dump_lat,0,5616475.story?coll=la-home-headlines
By Cara Mia DiMassa
Times Staff Writer -  March 22, 2006
Authorities released a videotape this afternoon of what they say is the dumping of a 63-year-old woman on the streets of skid row. .....LAPD Capt. Andrew Smith said he believes the taxi took the woman, a 63-year-old Gardena resident, downtown against her will after she was discharged from Kaiser Permanente Bellflower on Monday....In addition, LAPD officials have said that they often see people with hospital wristbands on skid row, often appearing ill and sometimes wearing colostomy bags.
Mirrored at: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/skidrow.html