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	<title>Comments on: Kaiser reports obscene $2.5 billion in net income through 3rd qtr</title>
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		<title>By: justen :: George Halvorson: Killing Kaiser Permanente.</title>
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		<dc:creator>justen :: George Halvorson: Killing Kaiser Permanente.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] have been more on point: &#8220;Officials at the Oakland-based health-care giant said &#8216;ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs and administrative efficiencies&#8216; contributed to the strong financial results for the quarter.&#8221; Profit, at the expense [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] have been more on point: &#8220;Officials at the Oakland-based health-care giant said &#8216;ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs and administrative efficiencies&#8216; contributed to the strong financial results for the quarter.&#8221; Profit, at the expense [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Cathy</title>
		<link>http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/11/08/kaiser-reports-obscene-25-billion-in-net-income/#comment-23849</link>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs"

Such as trying to cut costs by &lt;a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/05/13/kaiser-halts-kidney-venture/" rel="nofollow"&gt;setting up a death trap kidney transplant "program"&lt;/a&gt;?

Or &lt;a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2005/12/22/kaiser-permanente-dumps-patients-on-skid-row/" rel="nofollow"&gt;dumping 'costly' homeless patients on the street&lt;/a&gt; (again and &lt;a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/07/13/new-homeless-dumping-allegations-against-kaiser-baldwin-hills/" rel="nofollow"&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;)?

Or &lt;a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/19/kaiser-permanente-ordered-to-reinstate-benefits-it-illegally-canceled/" rel="nofollow"&gt;yanking coverage from a woman after you figure out she's going to be more costly to care for than your underwriters originally thought, since she was just diagnosed with an expensive disease&lt;/a&gt;?

Or how about &lt;a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/10/16/kaiser-covers-up-for-another-negligent-doctor/" rel="nofollow"&gt;covering up a doctor's incompetence since he's a specialist and they're expensive to recruit&lt;/a&gt;?

Yup. Good job, Kaiser, on those "ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs." What's a life or two here or there, a bit of pain and suffering from time to time when it helps generate $2.5 billion in profit?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs&#8221;</p>
<p>Such as trying to cut costs by <a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/05/13/kaiser-halts-kidney-venture/" rel="nofollow">setting up a death trap kidney transplant &#8220;program&#8221;</a>?</p>
<p>Or <a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2005/12/22/kaiser-permanente-dumps-patients-on-skid-row/" rel="nofollow">dumping &#8216;costly&#8217; homeless patients on the street</a> (again and <a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/07/13/new-homeless-dumping-allegations-against-kaiser-baldwin-hills/" rel="nofollow">again</a>)?</p>
<p>Or <a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/19/kaiser-permanente-ordered-to-reinstate-benefits-it-illegally-canceled/" rel="nofollow">yanking coverage from a woman after you figure out she&#8217;s going to be more costly to care for than your underwriters originally thought, since she was just diagnosed with an expensive disease</a>?</p>
<p>Or how about <a href="http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/10/16/kaiser-covers-up-for-another-negligent-doctor/" rel="nofollow">covering up a doctor&#8217;s incompetence since he&#8217;s a specialist and they&#8217;re expensive to recruit</a>?</p>
<p>Yup. Good job, Kaiser, on those &#8220;ongoing efforts to address health-care delivery costs.&#8221; What&#8217;s a life or two here or there, a bit of pain and suffering from time to time when it helps generate $2.5 billion in profit?!</p>
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		<title>By: When is a non-profit not a non-profit? &#171; A few words about Kaiser Permanente and eKaiser Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2007/11/08/kaiser-reports-obscene-25-billion-in-net-income/#comment-23823</link>
		<dc:creator>When is a non-profit not a non-profit? &#171; A few words about Kaiser Permanente and eKaiser Insurance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] When its name is Kaiser Permanente and it reports $2.5 billion in net profits in the first 9 months of 2007, that&#8217;s when [...]</description>
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