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More press!

August 19th, 2004 at 2:30 pm » Comments (0)

[editor: Important correction: Cristy Wolf has never been a Kaiser employee, disgruntled or otherwise. She is a former Kaiser member, who completely lost faith in everyone at Kaiser Permanente after six years of near-constant difficulties with Kaiser's meat-market brand of medicine. She became an advocate for Kaiser members after a surgery [...]



We got press!

August 6th, 2004 at 2:14 pm » Comments (0)

[editor: One slight correction: there was no hacking involved. We found the first of the marketing materials on Google and that led us to the rest. None of the documents were behind the firewall, and all were easily accessible to anyone on the Internet. Makes you wonder if that claptrap HealthConnect system, which contains [...]



Patients or Population Targets — Kaiser Permanente’s $40 Million “Thrive” Image Campaign

July 21st, 2004 at 2:38 pm » Comments (8)

Ever wonder what Kaiser Permanente does with those hefty premium increases that come around every year like clockwork? If Kaiser and its multi-million dollar image consultants had their way, Kaiser members would believe it’s all about the drug companies and unions. It certainly doesn’t help matters that politicians and the media buy into the [...]