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Just 17 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the brand-new Kaiser Foundation Hospital at Panorama City looms above the summer-dried landscape like a pair of upended binoculars. But the rush of patients to the twin seven-story towers this week was far more than a response to architectural novelty. It was a testament to the success of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.. a repetition of the warm response that greeted the opening of Kaiser's new Medical Office Building at Hayward, near Oakland, fortnight ago. it was one more impressive statistic to add to the success...
...nation's largest nongovernmental, womb-to-tomb program for prepaid health and hospital care. Since World War II it has grown to a grand total of 911.001 members, representing about 337,000 subscribers and their families. Contrary to widespread belief, employees of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser and his gangling industrial empire make up only 5% of Medikaiser's subscribers...
...complete protection than is available from most other forms of U.S. medical insurance. In most of the U.S., Blue Cross pays only hospital bills and Blue Shield pays only surgeons' fees and some doctors' bills; H.I.P. (the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York), runner-up to Kaiser as the nation's biggest prepaid care plan, does not cover hospital bills. Medikaiser covers almost everything...
Said Union President David McDonald: "The agreement was reached without government intervention or pressure from any outside source." As for the companies, Kaiser Aluminum spoke for them when it called the new contract "an outstanding example of collective bargaining working as it should work...
...hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that he presented her with a portrait of himself that in World War I was ostentatiously hung behind the toilet in the men's room...