[Same old story: complaints were ignored, patients died, whistleblowers were retaliated against, and Kaiser denies any wrongdoing regardless of copious evidence to the contrary. It happens so often we would be bored if it wasn't so damned tragic. Scroll down to the bottom of the story for a link to the original report about this [...]
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Federal report slams Kaiser for failure to act on complaints about baby killing doctor
Unadulterated & nefarious PR
Ian Bogost of Kotaku has written a not so healthy review of Kaiser Permanente’s much hyped new health game for kids, the Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective. It’s nice to know we’re not the only ones who recognize Kaiser PRBS? when we see it:
Kaiser is a big company with a lot of money, [...]
Kaiser covers up for another negligent doctor, whistleblowers retaliated against — AGAIN
[The only thing more reprehensible than Kaiser's failure to protect its patients from this known repeat malpractice offender, is its PRBS release defending its despicable actions. Kaiser Thrive Exposed joins Justen Deal in his demand for the resignation of The Permanente Medical Group CEO, and lead obfuscater, Dr. Robert Pearl. In the meantime, Kaiser [...]
George Halvorson 5, Lehna Brewer minus 18 months
[kaiserthrive.org's editor's note: We love birthday parties -- especially our own -- but even so we were taught to be humble on these occasions, and that it would be less than polite to toot our own horn. Not so George Halvorson, who appears to revel in insulting Kaiser Permanente victims by refusing to address [...]
Fourth season of Brand Baloney on a $45 million Kaiser roll
[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: Yeah, everyone is 'Thrive'-ing at Kaiser Permanente...unless you need a kidney transplant, or have pneumonia, or cancer, or a past due pregnancy, or a consumer complaint, or need a prescription, or, or, or...
Thrive has been so "successful" that nationally Kaiser membership has remained mostly flat since the campaign began, and the Hawaii [...]
Non-profit in name only
[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: Our apologies for not posting this sooner, but due to recent personal obligations it has been difficult to update as often as we would like to. Unfortunately I also don't have much time tonight for commentary, although this article and Kaiser's news release certainly scream out for more than a little [...]
Kaiser Permanente’s Prominent Role in American Health Care Deform
The impending release of Michael Moore’s scathing indictment of the US Health Care industry, ‘SiCKO’ — which features one Kaiser Permanente scandal after another — has the Kaiser PR goons working overtime. With their usual intent to baffle, befuddle and bamboozle, they would like to convince you to disbelieve what you see and hear [...]
An introduction to PRBS?
We have posted the introduction to our new ongoing series on eKaiserInsuranceSucks.com, How to recognize Kaiser PRBS?. It begins:
The purpose of this web site is to chronicle and explore Kaiser Permanente’s latest internet advertising and social media PR campaign for eKaiser Insurance (see press release). We will also detail some of the problems at Kaiser, [...]
Introducing eKaiser Insurance Sucks.com
In its latest press release, Kaiser Permanente reveals plans to command and conquer the internet by squandering piles of member money on every tawdry PR trick in the book. Is anyone else as sick of being managed and manipulated by corporate strategists as we are?
We’re calling our new campaign Murder by PRBS?, and we’re [...]
Shameless Kaiser PR Grab
Permanente Medical Group CEO, Dr. Robert Pearl, invokes father’s
tragic death by medical error to further the cover up at Kaiser
[editor: Unconscionable, Dr. Pearl; simply unconscionable. We cite Kaiser Permanente Northwest's deliberate failure to report malpractice cases to Oregon regulators as required by law for THIRTEEN YEARS, keeping with Kaiser's policy that no wrongdoing has occurred [...]
Kaiser Thrive Exposed would like to personally thank Dr. Geoff Galbraith - Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute board member; and Vice President, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Quality Improvement Management - for inspiring us to create this website. Did we make it into the top 5?