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Nov. 9—Kaiser Permanente workers in Washington have ratified a new contract with large pay increases for nurses and service workers. Workers had been set to strike after their previous contract ...
A key Kaiser union campaigned hard to gain a $25 minimum wage for the health care industry’s lowest-paid workers. New deal sets three-year path to it.
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.
"Kaiser Permanente's latest proposal is an insulting 2% wage increase contingent upon union's agreement to a two-tier wage system, which threatens to cut 26-33% of wages for all future hires. Kaiser Permanente also refuses to address the short-staffing impacting all its facilities.
The rate of increase in both health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs have declined in the employer-based market. For example, premiums increased at an annual rate of 5.6% from 2000-2010, but 3.1% from 2010-2016. An estimated 155 million persons under the age 65 were covered under health insurance plans provided by their employers in 2016.
At Kaiser Permanente Southern California, which covers more than 4.8 million members, the uptick in COVID has mainly resulted in increased visits to clinics and doctor's offices.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or the federal government to determine whether the ...
Last month, Harris joined SEIU and nursing home workers in Wisconsin to announce two new federal rules that would establish minimum staffing requirements for federally funded nursing homes and ...