If you found your way here you were probably looking for The Kaiser Papers — the original Kaiser Permanente critical website, online since the year 2000. We are not affiliated with the folks at The Kaiser Papers, but many of the horror stories we have written about or linked to over the years were originally… Read More »
If things look different around here that is because we are in the midst of a much needed redesign. The changes will be extensive so we are working on a development site until everything is operating as we like, and as of this writing the current design is just a temporary intermediate step. We agree… Read More »
Among the most frequently asked questions we receive are “Who are you?” and “What are your goals?” Kaiser Permanente Thrive Exposed was started in 2004 as an anti-brand campaign, to counter KP’s deceptive attempt to rehabilitate its reputation with $40 million+ per year in member money, in the form of Thrive. We didn’t know anyone… Read More »
Did you know that the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) makes all of its enforcement actions against Kaiser Permanente and other HMOs available to the public online? This is just one of the many Resources for Kaiser Victims we have collected for our visitors, to assist with your research as you prepare to… Read More »
Oh Yay! Our first hate mail since we returned! And we were afraid we wouldn’t get noticed again after so much time away. Fortunately we keep really detailed logs so we can see quite a bit about the people who think it’s a worthy use of their time to do these nasty things. For the… Read More »
Greetings humble followers! After an extended absence We Are Back. We had to take a break to deal with some health problems of our own, but the website was hacked recently and that forced us to update. With the wealth of information we have collected here about Kaiser we didn’t want to just let it… Read More »
Highly recommended reading for everyone with an interest in how Kaiser’s rigged arbitration system works to keep its many misdeeds out of the public eye. It is rare for KP to lose in arbitration, but when they do, as in this case, “Kaiser offered to fund an annuity with the arbitration award, but only if… Read More »
How convenient for KP Southern California’s bank account that this man’s father was “accidentally” disconnected from his ventilator, only hours after his doctor failed to talk the man’s son into doing so on purpose! You have to ask yourself — is your Kaiser Permanente doctor a one man death panel? By Dwight Smith The Pulmonologist… Read More »
Below are ten more Kaiser Permanente scandals from the time period when we were not regularly updating this website. Most of this information comes to us in Google News and Blog Alerts, but recently the Big G has taken it upon itself to carry water for Kaiser, and has blocked most critical websites from the… Read More »
Yesterday, Sacramento Business Journal and CBS13 News reported on the case of a Kaiser Permanente psychiatrist who has been convicted of a felony sexual act with a minor. Dr. Stephen Melcher was sentenced to one year in jail for a lewd and lascivious act against a child under 14 — in this case an 11-year-old… Read More »