by Meryl Nass, M.D., Childrens Health Defense:

Is Kaiser Permanente, which is both an insurance company and a healthcare provider company, starting to worry about the amount of excess illness it’s seeing?

Kaiser Permanente is both an insurance company and a healthcare provider company. It negotiates with employers once a year to set its health insurance rates.

I wonder if Kaiser started getting worried at the amount of excess illness it was seeing. Once people are too sick to work, they lose their health insurance.