Why does California suck up to sucky Kaiser Permanente?

Posted on Author Donna Barstow

cartoon of Governor Jerry brown gives handouts to KaiserInsurance companies and Healthy Families Program

Can you tell by now I really don’t like insurance companies!? And Kaiser Permanente, California’s biggest HMO, is so so bad. Why WAS Kaiser the the only plan to get to keep this income program, HFP, Healthy Families?

In addition, Kaiser doesn’t have to subcontract out any of it now, as they had been doing before this sweetheart deal, so they slurp up any surplus. Other businesses had been benefiting from the health insurance plans by subcontracting out portions of the work, but no more. Win win Kaiser, lose everyone else.

Bribe, or Payout? You decide.

So WHY did Kaiser get this big Sacramento favor? Well, I don’t know for sure – have not found that anyone does – but Kaiser Permanente did give a nice bouquet of $250,000 to Gov. Jerry Brown. How kind of them!

From my weekly cartoon feature on California news & politics. Try out this California cartoon for powerpoint, newsletters, newspapers, blogs, books, etc. Details here.

ID #120625        Caption: Healthy Families, Unhealthy Government. (Jerry Brown reads paper with headline, Why is Kaiser Permanente the only health plan to keep the Healthy Families Program? A vase of flowers reads, to JB from KP – a gift (election present) worth $260,000.

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