Quality is not negotiable

KP and national labor leaders take the high ground on health care reform

With big changes to the health care system almost certainly coming—but with great uncertainty about what those changes will look like—can Kaiser Permanente be a model for national health care reform? And can KP and its unions show that quality of care will always come first?

KP executives, national labor leaders, and a U.S. Senator took up those questions at a recent forum of health care decision makers—and their answer was "yes."

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