#l - Kaiser Ads - the
Promises:
1a - website posting
- "absolute.. trust";
1b - Senior Advantage Ad
- "we'd like to be there for yon";
1c - Another Senior
Advantage Ad - "patient care comes first";
1d - A Third Senior Advantage
Ad "secret opinion walking down the hallway";
1e - A Fourth Senior Advantage Ad - "a plan yon can trust"
#2 - "Patient" vs. "Customer" Detailed Essay;
#3 - Sample Cover of the Permanente Journal;
#4 - Kaiser Cartoon - why the lines will stay long;
#5 - Web Pathway and Article - "Selecting and Interpreting Diagnostic Tests" - and the table on Lyme's testing;
#6 - Abnormal Stress Test - read by Kaiser as "unremarkable";
#8 - Renal Tests - Northern California - creatinine - upper limit set too high.
#9-
Lyme Tests
a.
9a-Topic
Introduction;
b. 9b - Overview by Miguel
Perez-Lizano;
c. 9c - Kaiser's Lyme protocol
- now taken offline by Kaiser;
d. 9d - Dr. Donta's published
protocol on Lyme - Boston;
e. 9e - A Critique of Kaiser v.
Dr. Donta;
f. 9e - One
Lyme patient's experience with Kaiser;
g. 9f - Another Patient's
Experience;
h. 9g -Yet Another
Patient;
i. 9h - $65,000 Award
for Missed Lyme Disease and a Wrecked Life.
#10-
Anthrax
a.
10a- Kaiser's
Advice vs. that of the CDC;
b. 10b- Kaiser uses Anthrax
Posting on Web to Recruit MDs
#11- Chest X-rays:
a. 11a- Patient with CXR sent by outside ER;
b. 11b-Kaiser Loses X-ray;
c. 11c- Dramatized True Story - Kaiser Delays Ordering a Chest X-ray;
d. 11d- Chest x-ray reading - simply a checked box, not a description
#12- Underreading of MRIs
a. Contract
Group Avoids Mentioning Cruciate Ligament and Minimizes Damage to the Meniscus Cartilage;
b. Correct Reading of the same MRI;
#13 - California Leads the Nation in HMO Penetration - [Bad News];
#14- Cover and page II of "The Evolution of Medical Groups and Capitation in California";
#15 - Fewer Physicians for More Patients
a. Older Kaiser Doctors Pack
their Bags;
b. Physician Moves Away From Patients as More Distant Team Leader Spin Picture to Look Like the Patient will have More Access;
#16- The Permanente Map;
#17 - Patients vs. Staff
17a. "External Customers"
pictured as Drab People;
17b. Kaiser staff- pictured as
a more elite group of people;
#18 - Kaiser's Dirty Little Secret;
#19 - Kaiser Colorado Spin on Physician Incentives;
#20 - Medicare Benefits Going Down;
#21 - Dr. Lawrence's Life Style:
#21 a - $2,800,000
Home;
#21 b Questionable Relationship
to Watson Pharmacenticals;
#21c -$14 Million
Kaiser Investment for Caretouch, then Spinoff with Dr. Lawrence still on board;
#21d - Home Forgiveness - "In
Silicon Valley a new kind of house call"
#22 - Mr. Halverson - Kaiser's New CEO - Caught with Huge Perks in Minnesota -Fooling his own Staff;
#23 - Bayer/Kaiser Fraud - Scheming to Defraud the Government on Cipro;
#24 - Kaiser Uses 990 to Emphasize Non-profit images with for profit physicians obscured;
#25 - Kaiser Tries to Look Benevolent (no KP stocks);
#26 - The Permanente Medical Group Clearly Has Stock;
#27 - My Own Physician Profile on the Kaiser Computer Note secret "Report Card" (that I'll never see);
#28 - Outcome Goes Down for the Poor and Elderly in Managed Care
#29 - Kaiser's Net Income $137 per Quarter - or $648 million a year (Now divide half of that among the 3000 Permanente partners) = $100,000+ per year in dividend from under treating and undertesting;
#30 - Kaiser Hints at Incentives but Down Plays the Amount Every Time;
#31 - Physicians Brag about being Part Owners;
#32 - The Tahoe Agreement;
#33 - Documents Disappear Easily at Kaiser - State Department of Corporation Investigator Notices.