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Hi, hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I am a reapplicant, and am just wanting to figure out if my school list looks okay, or if there is anything else on my application I should work on, or if I should take some more time. I am planning to submit at the end of this month.
State: WA
School: UW
ORM? Yes
Major: Biochemistry
GPA: cGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 517
ECs:
Clinical Paid =
1400+ hrs in home caregiver (recent 500 was with my grandfather)
100> hours as scribe, projected 1000 hrs
Clinical Volunteering =
400 hrs volunteering at hospital
35 hrs volunteering with hospice in home
Research =
1100 hrs, 1 publication in major journal
Non-clinical =
25-30 hrs modifying toys to make them more accessible for youth with disabilities
300 hours volunteering food bank
110 hours tutoring ESOL for refugees/immigrants
100 hours tutoring youth from marginalized communities
70 hours supporting unhoused individuals to find jobs (resume making, job search/application, CV)
150 hours filing free tax returns for low-income individuals/families
250 crisis text line
Leadership:
200-250 hours tutoring organic chemistry club
200 hours optometry/opthamology interest club + premed club
Shadowing =
100 hours: IM + subspecialities, pediatrics, orthopedics
school list md: boston University Case western reserve Hofstra Northwell Duke Emory Dartmouth Geisel George Washington Harvard (should I remove) Mount Sinai USC Kaiser permanente Mayo Clinic USC Loyola Chicago Stritch New York Medical College Northwestern UWSOM (URM here) Medical College of Wisconsin Michigan State UPenn Brown Sidney Kimmel Stanford UCSF (URM here) UCSD UCLA UCI Tulane Umiami USF WVU WSU Rush
Thank you for all the help. Are there are any schools I should add or remove from the list? And any advice is super appreciated!! Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend.

Hey there, has anyone had success getting a prescription through their Kaiser Permanente primary care doctor? Mine has denied a prescription though my BMI is 30. I do not have the comorbidities typically associated with the indication for semaglutide, just the high BMI.
Should I explore options through my OBGYN or go elsewhere? I understand Kaiser won’t typically cover the cost, but I’m wondering if they’re stingy with prescribing it in general. I know it’s a case-by-case basis depending on prescriber but wonder if there’s a trend. Thank you!

When does it end? I’m starting to feel discouraged. I’ve been to endless appointments and nobody is listening - especially me as a woman trying to get help for a gynecological issue - I have the BRCA1 gene. Firstly, it’s frustrating that medical staff don’t take women of color seriously in the first place. 25F.
Not to mention medical treatment where I’m at is already taking ages. For example, I won’t be able to get my MRI report for 3-4 weeks and there’s nothing my doctor can do to speed up the process.
I also have to get an ophthalmologist visit after my ophthalmologist says I clearly don’t need one. Last year I got a laser treatment to patch up retina holes just to be safe. My ophthalmologist said I’m going and to follow up with my optometrist for yearly exams or to contact him if I have any problems. Except that won’t fly with peace corps. None of my doctors take the time to listen to me. I spent $200 to sit in a gynecologist office just to TALK to them - they didn’t do any procedures since I had my exams and bloodwork done and everything with a previous doctor who refuses to write me a thorough letter (going through Kaiser Permanente bureaucracy is a whole other thing).
I understand why Peace Coros does this - god forbid I miss a cancer diagnosis during service or lose my eyesight since I’m prone to retina tears since I already have a heavy prescription. It’s just so frustrating . Im healthy - we’re just preparing for what if scenarios. Thinking about my cancer genes and own mortality and then weird grieving that comes from medicine (mom passed from cancer over a decade ago) adds on the feeling of being unsettled.
I’m set to depart early August and it seems like the medical tasks are endless. I was hoping to be cleared by end of May but it looks like that’s not going to happen. I’ve been communicative to my nurse but what happens if I can’t get everything in by departure date? Is it pure medical denial or is there a chance for later departure with another country/cohort? I can’t be medical cleared a week before departure like some have experienced - I wanted at least a month to quit my job and enjoy free time with family (I also have to travel back to my home state). I need time to pack and prepare. Feeling so stressed and discouraged.

I’m really upset right now.
April 15th, I got a call from Kaiser Permanente saying they scheduled a Pap smear appointment for me as I’m due for one. I’m 24 and I’ve been avoiding my first Pap smear since I was 21 due to anxiety.
Anyways, back in April they scheduled it for May 10th which happens to be today. I agreed to that date because I wanted to get my fear over with and not delay any longer. I accepted May 10th despite knowing that I had a mandatory zoom training at work.
Well, I called my boss at around 6:10 this morning and informed him of me calling in. He reminded me that today is mandatory training and told me to go online. I forgot to tell my boss that I’m using a sick day for my doctors appointment. My boyfriend told me to email him and this is how it went.
Me : Hello boss! Unfortunately I had a doctor’s appointment today, and I called in this morning. I wanted to clarify that I would like to use my sick time as this is for a doctor’s appointment. Boss, you mentioned to attend the meeting at 2, and my appointment is at 11:30. I’ll attempt to attend the meeting after my doctors visit, but I had a question regarding this. If I were to join this meeting at 2, would I be getting an hour of sick time back? As in I would be using 7 hours instead of 8?
Boss : If you attend the zoom meeting, then you will be paid for the hour. I assume you knew about this appointment before this morning at 6:00 am. You should have scheduled this with me in advance rather than wait until the day of. When you found out about the appointment you should have re-scheduled it due to the mandatory meeting today.
I apologized to my boss for any inconveniences and I acknowledge I messed up not informing him ahead of time but I knew he’d try to make me reschedule and I didn’t want to push the date any further. I’m upset at his words of “You should have scheduled this with me in advance rather than wait until the day of.” Am I supposed to schedule doctor’s appointments with my boss?
This is in California, by the way.

Has anyone had a successful Vbac in San Diego Kaiser Permanente? Also, how much time between births do you have to wait to qualify for a Vbac?

i had an appointment with my primary care physician and she sent me a prescription for Ozempic and to double my Metformin dose. so i waited several hours and then placed my order on the KP app and drove an hour each way to pick them up. when i got to the pharmacy they gave me the rest of my medications and said they needed to be approved by someone else and that they have a program for this (by this i mean approving ozempic for non diabetics) i was upset just because i feel like they should have let me know about this and that i know kaiser norcal does approve this medication for chronic weight issues and obesity. it’s also covered under my secondary insurance. they said to expect a call from someone in this “program” today and now i can’t sleep - and it’s making me nervous 😬 what do i say to this person? my bmi is 50 and i’ve been severely overweight my entire life even with a good diet and regular exercise.

Anyone receiving prenatal care via Kaiser currently? I am only 10, almost 11 weeks along, but the experience has been pretty unremarkable and a little disappointing so far. I’ve not spoken with the same doctonurse more than once so far, and my appointments are looking like they will alternate between two different Kaiser facilities for the next few months, different doctors/nurses each time because the location closest to home for me is a small medical office facility with very small prenatal department, and some of the appointments/services will need to be done by their larger facility with a much bigger prenatal care division, I guess. This is my first pregnancy, and I guess I just expected a more structured experience and one doctor who is basically with you through it all. I’m curious if others are having the same experience or if you’re having a great experience. If it’s been great for you, is there anything I could or should be doing that maybe I’m not to improve my experience?

I’m Caroline, a medical student from Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. I’m conducting a research project to explore the capabilities of outdoor climbers in managing medical emergencies in the wilderness.
Your experience is incredibly valuable, whether you're a beginner climber or a full-time adventurer, so I would really appreciate your participation in my survey (it takes about 10 minutes)!
~Why Participate?~
🚑 Contribute to essential research that could enhance safety standards and preparedness in the climbing community.
🤔 Reflect on your own skills and preparedness, which is crucial for every climber.
🌍 Help address potential inequities in outdoor recreation and ensure a safer climbing environment for everyone.
Your anonymous responses will greatly contribute to understanding current practices and knowledge gaps in our community. ***Limited to 18+ and people living in the US/US Territories.
Thanks so much for your help and for sharing this with other climbers! (Survey link is below)
https://forms.office.com/Z75a006xLr

I’m Caroline, a medical student from Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. I’m conducting a research project to explore the capabilities of outdoor climbers in managing medical emergencies in the wilderness.
Your experience is incredibly valuable, whether you're a beginner climber or a full-time adventurer, so I would really appreciate your participation in my survey (it takes about 10 minutes)!
~Why Participate?~
🚑 Contribute to essential research that could enhance safety standards and preparedness in the climbing community.
🤔 Reflect on your own skills and preparedness, which is crucial for every climber.
🌍 Help address potential inequities in outdoor recreation and ensure a safer climbing environment for everyone.
Your anonymous responses will greatly contribute to understanding current practices and knowledge gaps in our community. ***Limited to 18+ and people living in the US/US Territories.
Thanks so much for your help and for sharing this with other climbers! (Survey link is below)
https://forms.office.com/Z75a006xLr

Hi all. It's that time of year again. Thank you in advance for the advice.
GPA: 3.75, sGPA 3.83. Majored in Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley, class of '23. Ended up with a higher science GPA since my only B's were in psychology and a couple other breadth classes.
MCAT: 517 (130/128/132/127), took in May '22
Clinical Volunteering: General volunteer at OHSU - 100 hrs. Started as a receptionist/scribe volunteer at a local free clinic in March, and I am in the process of starting a hospice volunteer position this month. Projecting to do 10hrs/mo and 20hrs/mo, respectively, for the next year+. This is what I feel least confident about, and I'd love to know how I can improve this part of my application.
Nonclinical Volunteering: Local food banks - Distributing food, running food drives - 50 hrs. Helped an Afghan refugee learn English and adjust to the US through a local program - 30 hrs. Local cleanup events - 20 hrs.
Research: Undergraduate assistant at Lawrence Berkeley Lab - 750 hrs. Two poster presentations, no pubs yet since we were mostly working on a longitudinal environmental microbiome study that had just started recently. Junior specialist at UCSF - ongoing, projected ~3800hrs. Full time lab manager position, and I've worked on a couple projects concerning stem cell differentiation protocols and pesticide toxicity on neurons. Hopefully will have up to 3 pubs within the year.
Shadowing: 20hrs in a dermatology clinic, 10hrs in the nephrology department at the local hospital, 10hrs in a nephrology clinic.
Teaching: Peer advisotutor at UC Berkeley - ~100hrs. Also extensively mentored several underclassmen/high schoolers about career planning and chem/bio/physics, in an unofficial capacity.
Work Experience: Worked in the campus dining hall for 250hrs and at Walgreens for 450hrs. Worked as a manufacturing operator at ThermoFisher for 350hrs as well.
Leadership: I was on the leadership council of several small scale clubs at Berkeley (10-20 members), as well as a social fraternity. In my opinion this had the least impact on my medicine journey; I feel like expecting all doctors to be leaders is setting them up for conflict, but I digress.
LoR: 5+ total. One from a science professor; took their class for a semester, attended office hours often. Two from undergraduate research, the PI and my postdoc mentor. One from the director of the UC Berkeley peer advising program. One or more letters from my current research position.
Personal Statement: I want to inspire young children and adults with a passion for learning and knowledge. I also want to cultivate humility and empathy in the healthcare environment, and emphasize longitudinal care that can properly consider a patient's entire medical history to provide effective therapy. I was inspired by my role models, and a few personal experiences from relatives and friends in the healthcare system.
Artistic Endeavors: I've developed a board game called "Relic Wars". I designed the gameplay, created artwork for the game, wrote a lore book, and I am currently waiting for my prototypes to ship so I can start marketing/promotion. It's been my passion project for a year and a half, and I wanted to explore my creativity before dealing with med school responsibilities even if it doesn't help my application. That being said, I'd love to find some way to show this to adcoms as proof of my independence, work ethic, and commitment to my goals.
School List: I was raised in Oregon, and got a California ID when I moved here around November '23. Not sure if that gives me in-state status for California schools. I prefer to stay close to home but I understand I don't have much choice in this process. Feel free to rip apart my list, I didn't put a ton of thought into it.
Yale, Stanford, UCSF, NYU, Albert Einstein, Keck, UCLA, UCI, UC Davis, Kaiser Permanente, SUNY, Drexel, UW, Loma Linda, OHSU, Rush, UC Riverside, Washington State, U. Colorado, Emory, CUSM, U. Vermont, Wisconsin, U. Illinois

My husband will hopefully be getting a teaching job with SFUSD and we are moving to San Francisco from the East Coast. Need guidance on which health insurance plan to choose that is best for Type 1 Diabetic that uses Omnipod 5 insulin pump and Dexcom G6 sensors (will be G7 in a few months). Looks like there are 5 plans to choose from (although the only PPO seems out of reach w annual premiums alone totaling over $20k for Employee + 1). The others are Health Net Canopy Care HMO; Kaiser Permanente HMO; BlueShield of CA Trio; and BlueShield of CA Access + HMO I don’t know which pharmacy tier the Omnipod and Dexcom will be priced at, or even if they fall under pharmacy or medical equipment. Seems like you already have to be an employee to be able to log in and find this info.
Thank you for any help!

My husband will hopefully be getting a teaching job with SFUSD and we are moving to San Francisco from the East Coast. Need guidance on which health insurance plan to choose that is best for Type 1 Diabetic that uses Omnipod 5 insulin pump and Dexcom G6 sensors (will be G7 in a few months). Looks like there are 5 plans to choose from (although the only PPO seems out of reach w annual premiums alone totaling over $20k for Employee + 1). The others are Health Net Canopy Care HMO; Kaiser Permanente HMO; BlueShield of CA Trio; and BlueShield of CA Access + HMO I don’t know which pharmacy tier the Omnipod and Dexcom will be priced at, or even if they fall under pharmacy or medical equipment. Seems like you already have to be an employee to be able to log in and find this info.
Thank you for any help!

So I applied for a Kaiser Inpatient Pharmacy tech position and not too long after my statues changed to talent acquisition interview scheduled this was on May 6th and then the next day they asked me to provide the career snapshot soon after (though I was used to them asking before they would change my status) for my other job statuses that haven't changed from talent acquisition review in progress. I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them and if so how long before they contacted you?

Does anyone have any experiences working at any of Kaiser Permanente's outpatient Psychiatric clinics? Would love to hear more about peoples' experiences, good and bad! Specifically would love to hear if anyone has had experiences at any of the DC locations.

Got an offer for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland (3600 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611) on a med-surg/tele unit and strongly considering the contract as I'd like to explore Oakland and areas around it.
Anyone here worked there as a traveler or staff? How are ratios for Med-surg, lab draws (phleb. vs. nurse draw; I'm comfortable with either), overall ambience, management, etc.?
Thank you!

Imagine, if you will, an America that was home to just three types of organizations: government bodies that make or administer laws; business firms that make and take profits; and families and other civil society associations that shape human characters.
Then somebody comes along with an intriguing proposal. In addition to these, let’s create a “nonprofit sector” consisting of organizations that enjoy one or more of four types of tax exemptions, subsidies, or supports: tax-free property owned by the organizations; tax-deductible donations to the organizations; taxpayer-funded grants, contracts, or fees to the organizations; and taxpayer-funded payments to individuals for purchasing goods or services from the organizations.
Intriguing indeed. But, you ask, why do we need any such “nonprofit sector?” What criteria should be used to determine which existing or new organizations receive some, all, or none of those four tax privileges? Who is supposed to benefit from their existence, and by what measures? And, last but not least, how might we mitigate the moral hazard when some of these organizations inevitably use their tax privileges for private gains or to evade public accountability, or behave in ways that are both deceptive and self-dealing?
First, the good news. America has a real and robust nonprofit sector, or, as I shall interchangeably call it, tax-privileged sector. The nation’s more than twelve million tax-privileged organizations mobilize more than sixty million volunteers each year. The National Council of Nonprofits is the tax-privileged sector’s leading research, training, and advocacy arm. It has documented that about 92 percent of all nonprofits are small, community-based, and serve local needs, while fewer than 3 percent lobby for government grants or contracts.
For example, America is home to hundreds of thousands of churches, synagogues, mosques, and other sacred places that serve civic purposes ranging from preschool programs to eldercare services. They benefit needy and neglected children, youth, and families of every faith and of no faith. Their tax-exempt properties are typically neither large nor lavish. Few receive any direct government funding. Their donors are mostly low- to middle-income people who do not itemize on their tax returns. So, when they donate a dollar they donate a whole dollar.
But even most large, national nonprofits that work from suites rather than the streets presumptively merit their tax privileges. That includes the nearly 300,000 IRS-registered nonprofits that do their health care, human services, and other do-gooding on budgets of $500,000 a year or more, roughly 20,000 of which boast annual budgets of $10 million or more.
Now, however, the more challenging news. At its very top, the tax-privileged sector is dominated by the ten nonprofit health systems that in 2021 each collected $14.5 billion or more in annual revenues, and by a dozen nonprofit universities that are among the most well-endowed universities in America. Is enough being done to ensure that these tax-privileged titans’ board members, CEOs, presidents, and other leaders are using their respective tax privileges in the public interest while refraining from individual or institutional self-dealing?
Today in Congress, a diverse and growing chorus says “no.” For example, one year ago, Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Victoria Spartz proposed the Stop Anticompetitive Healthcare Act. The bill would give the Federal Trade Commission the authority to investigate and ban future mergers in the nonprofit health systems industry that now encompasses almost 60 percent of all the hospitals in America. That industry is led by giants like Kaiser Permanente, which in 2021 encompassed 39 hospitals plus 734 medical offices and had $93.4 billion in revenues.
Likewise, in December, Senator J.D. Vance, joined by five other Republican members, proposed the College Admissions Accountability Act. The bill would establish a new inspector general’s office and subject nonprofit universities with endowments that total $10 billion or more to a 35 percent federal excise tax (up from 14 percent) on endowment net investment income. Harvard sits atop that heap with a more than $50 billion endowment and more than $500 million a year in gifts from alumni and others.
Neither bill has passed or is likely to pass, but many more such bills are in play or on the way. These days any issue can become fodder for hyperpartisanship and ideological combat. That seems to be happening of late in relation to some congressional inquiries regarding elite private universities’ responses to antisemitism, including (full disclosure) my own, the University of Pennsylvania. But there is a better, bipartisan way for Congress to assess how rich nonprofit hospitals and universities use their respective tax privileges, and to decide what, if any, reforms are needed.

Do No Harm

Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from most federal and state taxes. They also can receive both tax-deductible contributions from individuals and grants or contracts from government funders. Under some conditions, they can also issue tax-exempt bonds. Those tax privileges are predicated on the expectation that they will distribute any profits to charitable care and financial relief for their patients and communities. Do they?
There is evidence to suggest that more than a few do not. In a 2023 article in Health Affairs, Rice University economists Derek Jenkins and Vivian Ho noted, “Nonprofit hospitals, which currently comprise approximately 58 percent of U.S. hospitals, have been repeatedly criticized by scholars and policymakers for failing to live up to a poorly articulated standard of ‘charity care’ and benevolence,” and for failing to justify their tens of billions of dollars a year in federal, state, and local tax breaks.
Jenkins and Ho compared changes in nonprofit hospitals’ profits with changes in their charity care—conventionally defined as the value of free and discounted care given to economically disadvantaged patients—and cash reserves. They conducted an in-depth analysis of National Academy for State Health Policy data for the period 2012 through 2019 and found “substantial growth in nonprofit hospital operating profits and cash reserves in this period but no corresponding increase in charity care.” And they noted that 86 percent of nonprofit hospitals do “not provide more charity care than the value of their tax exemption.”
Likewise, a 2022 report by the Economic Research Institute found that nonprofit hospital CEOs were paid, on average, $600,000 a year, while the ten highest-paid nonprofit health systems executives each made $7 million a year or more. The CEO of Kaiser Permanente was paid nearly $18 million in 2018.
In a New York Times op-ed from last October, Amol Navathe, a practicing physician and co-director of Penn’s Healthcare Transformation Institute, suggested that nonprofit hospitals care more about dollars than patients. Why? Because the government has yet to define and enforce clear metrics for measuring “community benefits,” and because “regulators like the IRS” do not strip “the tax-advantaged status of egregious actors.” This could, he concluded, “be fixed through legislation by Congress.”
Amen; but, I would amend that conclusion to say that it can be fixed only through federal legislation. At least in my view, the aforementioned Jayapal-Spartz bill had numerous worthwhile provisions, but the place to start with the largest and richest nonprofit hospitals and healthcare systems or “mega meds” might be a federal mandate regarding so-called charity care.
In a 2021 Health Affairs article, Johns Hopkins University’s Ge Bai and other health care researchers found that nonprofit hospitals spent about 39 percent less on charity care than for-profit hospitals did. But make no mistake, for-profit hospitals are no angels of mercy. In a 2023 Health Services Research article, Emory University’s David Howard and Penn’s Guy David reported that for-profit hospitals over-admit patients, including straight from emergency rooms, to increase revenues.

Cui Bono, Professor?

In 2023, a Gallup survey found that only 17 percent of Americans had “a great deal of confidence” in higher education—down from 28 percent in 2015—while 22 percent expressed “very little” confidence in higher education, up from 9 percent in 2015. Reflecting on these and related survey findings, a feature from last October in The Chronicle of Higher Education ran beneath the title, “The Public Is Giving Up on Higher Ed.”
Indeed. Many people perceive higher education as a fish that has been rotting from its elite private university heads on down. Certain facts feed that negative perception. For instance, the richest schools just keep on getting richer. Based on data reported by OpentheBooks.com, Harvard and nine other universities with endowments that in 2022 totaled $237 billion (up $65 billion over 2018) had scored $33 billion in federal grants and contracts between 2018 and 2022.
In 2022, real median annual household income for American families was $74,580, while the average cost in tuition plus other fees to attend an Ivy League university for a year was $83,046. The Ivies and their well-endowed peers offer students billions of dollars a year in financial aid, but they also receive billions of dollars a year from students who take out loans. For instance, according to a 2015 analysis by Brookings Institution’ Adam Looney and others, in 2014, debt carried by students and alumni totaled $760 million for Yale, $1.2 billion for Harvard, and $2.1 billion for Penn.
Federal law permits tax-privileged universities to reap royalties and licensing revenues on taxpayer-funded research that results in commercial products (for example, new drugs) and grants them broad discretion in deciding how to reinvest the profits. The sums involved can be quite large. They are also free to expand their tax-free campus property footprints without needing to document how, for example, bigger and better digs for their faculty members, administrators, or students benefit (or at least do not harm) people living in adjacent neighorhoods, the city’s property tax coffers, or the public at large.
Still, most people, I’d wager, would vote for tax privileges going to the richest nonprofit universities’ programs in medicine, nursing, engineering, computer sciences, and the natural sciences. Even tax privileges for poets and political scientists might survive a popular vote. But, then again, what’s the case for tax privileges going to their state-of-the-art fitness centers, fancy faculty dining facilities, and business schools inhabiting luxurious campus-based edifices in multiple cities while functioning like pre-service training centers or head-hunting hubs for wealthy Wall Street financial firms? There might well be a good case for such members-only amenities, but it needs to be made.
It would be hard to dispute that what elite nonprofit universities spend on local, national, and international programs that directly benefit people who are not otherwise affiliated with or touched by the university is a pittance—maybe 1 percent of their total annual budgets. But there is also no disputing that they generate significant direct and indirect economic and societal “halo effects” through employment, capital spending, purchasing goods and services, supplementing municipal services (public safety and others), ancillary spending by students, patients, and visitors, and more. For example, one study suggested that Penn and its health system together pumped more than $14 billion into the university’s local and state-wide economy in fiscal year 2015.

Send in the GNATs

Senator Elizabeth Warren has joined with Senator Vance in drafting federal laws intended to bring big banks and other huge financial institutions to heel in the public interest. Maybe the strange-bedfellow senatorial duo might have a second act on mega-nonprofits. Specifically, how about something like a Giant Nonprofit Accountability and Transparency (GNAT) Act?
The GNAT Act might direct the IRS, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and the Congressional Budget Office to collaborate as a GNAT Interagency Task Force. The act might also direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education to give the task force their complete cooperation.
The task force’s very first task would be data gathering and data analyses dedicated to fashioning a method for reckoning the total value of the tax privileges (exempt property, deductible donations, grants and contracts, payments to individuals) that a rich nonprofit receives relative to the total value of the direct and indirect benefits (societal, economic, technological, and other) to non-members, wider communities, and the public at large that it returns. And the mission behind the method would be to learn and assess how the top nonprofit health systems and universities utilize their tax privileges. For instance, as indicated by Table 19-1 of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget of the United States, charitable tax deductions for education and health nonprofits account for scores of billions of dollars each year. Do some of the largest nonprofits have demonstrably better returns on the public’s investment in them than others? Might some deserve an “A” while others merit an unsatisfactory or even failing grade?
There is, of course, nothing being suggested here that would prevent, preempt, or pause narrow and nasty congressional inquiries. But maybe, just maybe, discussing and debating such an act might serve at once to discipline, deepen, and widen the inquiries in accordance with what James Madison, writing in The Federalist No. 10, termed the “public good” and defined as “the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” One is at least free to hope.
John J. DiIulio, Jr., fderic Fox Leadership Professor at University of Pennsylvania, has taught at several Ivy League universities and co-edited two Brookings Institution books on health care reform.

I’m getting older and am always thinking of how I can future proof myself. Currently I’m at a senior level/lead role for a tech-ish company that trends toward younger people in its workforce. Basically nobody outside the SVP/EVP/C Suite folks are older than 50. The industry is also constantly dealing with layoffs.
I don’t think I can find another good job if I get laid off at the age of 45 or something working in this industry.
I’ve heard good things about healthcare analytics because it seems stable and it seems most people work there for life until retirement. I know of some people who work at companies like Kaiser Permanente in California and they always seem to have the dream job. High salaries and an insane amount of vacation. And most importantly, never have any layoffs and never worry about job stability.
I guess the only drawback is it’s boring? Going from working on topical, cultural stuff to medical is very different.
Anyways, if I wanted to switch, I would have to take a huge pay cut and start over at the Analyst level, as I don’t think I could just into an equal senior level without any industry experience or domain knowledge. Question is if it’s worth the short term downfall for life long stability?

Ugh unfortunately Kaiser SoCal has tightened the reigns on the the savinngs card. I tried to get my prescription filled, only to find out it was no longer accepted. My pharmacist, who is truly amazing, tried to help by contacting the Lilly help desk, and we discovered that as of May 1st, Kaiser now requires coverage of some costs before the savings card kicks in.
To make matters worse, Kaiser SoCal doesn't even have Zepbound in their formulary, so I'm out of luck there. I could try another affiliated pharmacy, but they're far and often out of stock. Dealing with all this stress is not worth it to me. I'm just 12 pounds away from my goal weight, and it's disheartening to have to quit cold turkey!
GLP-1s truly changed my life and eating habits, so this setback is hitting hard. I'm hoping for better luck with insurance options during open enrollment. Wish me luck, and if anyone has advice or similar experiences, please share!

I am so upset with KP GA. I've received amazing service up until recently. I'm having issues getting my Rx for Zepbound filled because I can't find a pharmacy affiliated with KP. I called every pharmacy listed on their 2024 Directory and was informed they are not affiliated with KP. I reached out to KP via the pharmacy chat for an updated list and this was the response: "Unfortunately, Only Kaiser locations are covered under Kaiser. We are not affiliated with any outside pharmacies. We have 25 locations in Georgia and they all have a pharmacy."
Last month I was able to use Amazon pharmacy, but KP has since blocked them from getting a denial to apply the savings card. Paying $550/mth was a stretch, I cannot afford to pay over $1,000/mth. I'm aggravated at this point.🤬