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The Kaiser Strike is just part of what’s ailing the US health care system
Kaiser Permanente workers in California went on a three-day strike on Sunday to pressure the health provider to improve working conditions. “The people of Kaiser Permanente have faced…pandemic better than most frontline workers because we started from a different place,” the company said. It added that it has hired more than 1,000 nurses and other…
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Do you have a complaint? Many just walked out
Thousands of US employees have gone on a three-day strike demanding better working conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kaiser Permanente executives “kicked can down the road” at the same time that the US was hit by the pandemic, its employees said. The strike would hit hospitals, clinics and medical offices from California and Colorado to…
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A report shows that colorectal cancer is on the rise for adults younger than 55
According to a study by the American Cancer Society and Kaiser Permanente, there will be 153,020 colorectal cancer cases diagnosed in US this year and an estimated 52,550 colorectal cancer deaths, with 3,750 of them, or 7%, among people younger than 50. The researchers found that colorectal cancer cases and deaths were highest in the…