Kaiser Permanente To Cut 1,850 California Jobs

SoCalNative

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Wed Aug-12-09 06:40 PM
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Kaiser Permanente To Cut 1,850 California Jobs

Last week they announced a 75% increase in second quarter profits (to $620 million).

Does not compute.....

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-kaiser-layoffs,0,3288479.story

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Raster

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Wed Aug-12-09 08:03 PM
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1. Oh hell yeah, it computes. Kaiser, the beginning of "managed health care" sees the writing

on the wall. For-profit healthcare in California, just ain't what is used to be. If I were a nefarious, blood-sucking, for-profit healthcare* organization, I would be banking as much cash as I possibly could.

A backlash is coming.

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CatWoman

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Wed Aug-12-09 08:07 PM
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2. that's my HMO

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memphisheel

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Wed Aug-12-09 08:19 PM
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3. Kaiser killed my best friend

The small cancerous growth on his tongue was, on three separate occasions, deemed unworthy of the expense of surgical removal. It only became "worth it" once it had spread to his throat. Killed him three months later. R.I.P. Randy A.

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abumbyanyothername

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Wed Aug-12-09 08:24 PM
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4. One thing that people should know is

that announced layoffs don't always equal actual layoffs.

But in the case of the healthcare insurance industry, I would be happy to see all these people become civil servants.

Also, at some point we are just going to have to house and feed people, regardless of whether they can prove their worth to the for profit economy. But I will get shouted down on this very soon, as always.

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