Word: kaiser
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...would have guessed that a little baby-blue tablet designed to restore potency to the impotent would pack such a wallop? In June, Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO with the imperial name, announced that it had decided not to cover the cost of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states...
...ages 12 to 19 spent $60 billion last year, according to Teen Research Unlimited. But many of them believe that when it comes to cultural content, they are being sold a bill of used and impractical goods. A 1997 study commissioned by the advocacy organization Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 71% of girls ages 16 and 17 said the female characters on TV were unrealistically thin; in fact, the girls chose males predominantly as the TV characters they most admired. Recognizing gender stereotyping is one thing, but successfully resisting it is quite another. "All the attractive...
...nonprofits like the foundation with those of for-profit companies pitching their wares is unfair and shortsighted. We work with writers and producers who want to entertain and educate at the same time--surely a plus for everyone. VICKY RIDEOUT, Director Entertainment Media & Public Health Program Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Menlo Park, Calif...
Pressed by critics and lobbies, television has begun to include more realistic story lines about sex and its possible consequences. TV writers and producers are turning to groups like the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-policy think tank, for help in adding more depth and accuracy to stories involving sex. Kaiser has consulted on daytime soaps General Hospital and One Life to Live as well as the prime-time drama ER on subjects ranging from teen pregnancy to coming to terms with a gay high school athlete. Says Matt James, a Kaiser senior vice president: "We're trying...
...producers to air the ultrarapid detox drama? Critics point to an April article in the Wall Street Journal that detailed instances of TV shows being successfully lobbied by medical foundations and others to include dramatizations of specific diseases. In one example the Journal described how the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation wooed Dr. Neal Baer, an E.R. writer and producer, besieging him with studies on the increased risk of contracting AIDS for those with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease--a risk that was then mentioned...