To the editor: My spouse and I (now each in our 80s) reluctantly joined Kaiser Permanente in 2014 (“Tens of hundreds of Kaiser Permanente healthcare staff launch five-day strike,” Oct. 14). Our objective was to scale back medical prices to be able to help with the financing of our granddaughters’ faculty schooling. Having had PPO and concierge Medicare protection for the remainder of our grownup lives earlier than this, we had been suspicious of the care we might obtain at Kaiser.
We couldn’t have been extra incorrect. The care we now have acquired from each stage of Kaiser personnel has been superior, from docs to nurses to workers. The built-in care supplied by Kaiser has been well timed, skilled and of the very best high quality, all at an affordable price.
We hand the workers member a Kaiser card and we get care. There may be not often a copay, and if there may be one, it’s minimal. All of the docs have entry to all of our medical historical past and medicines. Built-in care means simply that: There’s a staff strategy with analysis and monitoring that ends in the very best commonplace of care.
Kaiser healthcare staff positively deserve acceptable remuneration for the essential jobs they achieve this properly. Understandably, Kaiser is trying to mitigate rising prices whereas nonetheless offering first-rate medical care. Either side deserve respect from the opposite. Let’s hope the problems ensuing within the present strike are resolved as shortly and pretty as potential.
Dave Sanderson, La Cañada Flintridge
