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Susan Kasperski 2004 The Charlene Dyson Story 2003 The Sharon Wolf Story 2002 Kaiser Sunset 1998 Kaiser Permanente has itself endured dozens of lawsuits and three blistering government investigations while across the country 1997 Kaiser agreed to pay $5.35 million Ronald Henderson alleged that a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses by 45 percent November 20, 1996 Raymond Erickson 1995 Zahman Ahmed |
2007 - The Susan Kasperski Story Susan
Kasperski is a long time Southern California Kaiser Permanente patient.
She
has prepared a chronology of negative events that she had to endure
while THRIVING in the hands of Kaiser. Susan has kept a
complete
diary over the years. This is a pretty good example of
assembly line
medicine in practice and shows just how bad the patient experience is
once an illness or disease needs treatment and the patient has no other
options. Please read her story at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/susankasperski.html The
Charlene
Dyson
Story https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/dyson.html The Sharon Wolf Story - October 9, 2003 The story of how a young grandmother was not medically treated for heart disease and is now basically abandoned by Kaiser Permanente and their medical system. The presented information indicates that Sharon could have been saved but is it now too late? Will medical people finally help Sharon so she will be able to watch her grandchildren grow up? A Heartfelt Error - Zahman Ahmed victim of Kaiser - Kaiser Santa Clara Story In May 1995, Zahman Ahmed*, a Silicon Valley tech worker was admitted into a Kaiser Clinic in Santa Clara, Calif. Although Ahmed was complaining of chest pains, the E.R. physicians told him that he looked too slim and healthy to be having a heart attack, denied him any sort of cardiac testing and sent him home. Kaiser agrees to pay family of man who died while awaiting treatment https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/corpuscristi.html An HMO has agreed to
pay $5.35 million to a family
who claimed that medical cost-cutting led to a man's death from
untreated
heart disease.
Lawyers for the family of Ronald Henderson alleged that a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting ``the bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death. Death In Room 512-B/Kaiser Sunset March 29, 2002 will be the eighth observation of my mother's death in room 512-B, at the L.A. Medical Center-- A.K.A. "Kaiser Sunset." Just days before her death, Mom had experienced chest pains severe enough that she felt the need for emergency medical treatment; she'd experienced the pain intermittently for one year, though medical tests indicated esophageal spasms were the culprit. DALLAS -- Kaiser Permanente - An HMO has agreed to pay $5.35 million to a family who claimed that medical cost-cutting led to a man's death from untreated heart disease. Lawyers for the family of Ronald Henderson alleged that a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting ``the bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death. The HMO agreed to the settlement Tuesday after a test jury in a novel nonbinding minitrial said it would have awarded the family more than 10 times that amount if the case had gone to an actual trial. https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/tex2116.html Nation’s Wealthiest HMO Leaves Jury Outraged -FORREST SAWYER- http://groups.google.com/groups?q=kaiser+permanente&hl=en&selm=19980220043101.XAA17578%40ladder03.news.aol.com&rnum=1 Care Versus Cost Nation’s Wealthiest
HMO Leaves Jury Outraged Feb. 13, 1998 It begins with a malpractice lawsuit in Texas, a family claiming the negligence of the country’s largest HMO, Kaiser Permanente, left their loved one dead. During the trial, startling evidence emerged, an internal speech by a Kaiser administrator. The administrator painted a picture of a company that appeared willing to risk placing profit above patient welfare. Together with the rest of the evidence, the speech stunned jurors and helped drive Kaiser to settle the lawsuit for millions. At the heart of all this, the public’s growing fear of health maintenance organizations. Kaiser Permanente has itself endured dozens of lawsuits and three blistering government investigations while across the country HMOs are losing money and consumer confidence and facing demands for tough new legislation, all this at the same time that more people than ever before are provided medical coverage by HMOs. What’s gone wrong with a system intended to help contain the boiling growth in the cost of health care? ......VALERI WILLIAMS (VO) Dr John Vogt is that official. He’s an associate medical director at Kaiser Permanente in Texas. Little did Vogt know that when he gave that speech to an HMO industry conference in 1995, that it would become such a damaging piece of evidence. The topic? Cutting costs. And these are some of his more controversial remarks. “The first thing that ever comes out of a Kaiser CEO now is what’s the bottom line,” and, “ ... any time you have to balance the budget, how do you do it? You cut utilization, drop referral rates, drop your hospitalization. The budget balances. We all go home ... “ And Vogt continued. At one point he refers to Kaiser’s urgent care centers or UCCs. “We basically said to the UCC doctors if you value your job, you won’t say anything about hospitalization. All you’ll say is I think you need further evaluation and Dr Schmoe is going to come in and talk with you. November 20, 1996 - Raymond Erickson Angiogram results not shared with patient, family has to pursue 2nd opinion just in time to save fathers life. (As told by daughter Joni Canada, RN) On November 20, 1996 my father was given an angiogram whilst an inpatient. The Doctor who gave our family the results recommended against bypass surgery and wanted to discharge him on trial medications. We were not satisfied with these recommendations and sought a second opinion. The second doctor recommended immediate bypass surgery! https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/erickson.html |