Oct. 16, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: My spouse and I (now each in our 80s) reluctantly joined Kaiser Permanente in 2014 (“Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers launch five-day strike,” Oct. 14). Our aim was to scale back medical prices as a way to help with the financing of our granddaughters’ faculty training. Having had PPO and concierge Medicare protection for the remainder of our grownup lives earlier than this, we have been suspicious of the care we’d obtain at Kaiser.
We couldn’t have been extra fallacious. The care we’ve obtained from each degree of Kaiser personnel has been superior, from docs to nurses to employees. The built-in care supplied by Kaiser has been well timed, skilled and of the best high quality, all at an affordable value.
We hand the employees member a Kaiser card and we get care. There’s hardly ever 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 drugs. Built-in care means simply that: There’s a crew strategy with analysis and monitoring that leads to the best normal of care.
Kaiser healthcare employees positively deserve acceptable remuneration for the essential jobs they accomplish that nicely. Understandably, Kaiser is making an attempt to mitigate rising prices whereas nonetheless offering first-rate medical care. Each side deserve respect from the opposite. Let’s hope the problems ensuing within the present strike are resolved as rapidly and pretty as doable.
Dave Sanderson, La Cañada Flintridge
