Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Can Any Hospital compete with Kaiser?

Spent a little time in an emergency room today and thought about private vs. Kaiser. It looks like the Kaiser hospital will over-run and overcome the private hospital styles of operation. A simple reason is that Kaiser owns and operates the medical system and the hospital operation. They, being a non-profit, can use their own income , from the Kaiser member , to fund all of the possible needs. And this means that they do not have to depend upon the Insurance companies for funds for the operation. And as the Insurance companies have to take 20-25% of the premiums to run their operations, Kaiser has a definite income advantage when it comes to running hospitals. My wife and daughter were at Kaiser for a procedure during the time I was in the ER at the local hospital, and both of them were impressed with the efficiency and precision of the Kaiser operational procedures. It bodes ill for private hospitals to have to compete with Kaiser!

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