Yearly Archives: 2004

More press!

[editor: Important correction: The site owner 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 she needed was… Read More »

We got press!

[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 ALL… Read More »

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

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 hype,… Read More »