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erronis

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7. I don't think the pro-KP patients have looked at the financial structure of this "non-profit"

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:33 PM

Oct 18

As the article calls out, it is running as a shell of a non-profit with plenty of profiteers (CEOs, etc.) and subsidiaries (physician's groups) all taking enormous PROFITS.

This model is pervasive in our sick health-care industry. Money is in charge, staff are vehicles to make money, and the patients are the suckers.

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As Kaiser Workers Strike, 'Not-for-Profit' Is Sitting on $67 Billion [View all] Passages Oct 18 OP

Kaiser are NOT the angels justaprogressive Oct 18 #1

I've had KP for decades. It's been great. I'm on their MA since I hit retirement age. Sibelius Fan Oct 18 #2

meanwhile they've screwed their workforce justaprogressive Oct 18 #3

The issue isn't underpaying their workforce. It's understaffing. Sibelius Fan Oct 18 #4

yes a LONG HISTORY of understaffing we agree! justaprogressive Oct 18 #5

Every one quoted in the OP complained about the pay being substandard MichMan Oct 18 #6

I don't think the pro-KP patients have looked at the financial structure of this "non-profit" erronis Oct 18 #7