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As the country’s largest private nonprofit health care organization, providing care for Americans, Kaiser Permanente is a leading voice with health care policy decision-makers. We believe it is important to provide our perspective on complex policy debates and engage the public in these critical issues.
- Mental health: Expanding access to high-quality mental health services
- Housing and homelessness: Building good health through housing
- Prescription drug pricing: Bringing down the unaffordable cost of prescription drugs
- Flavored tobacco: Protecting our youth from tobacco products
- Telehealth: Providing virtual care to meet patient needs
- Health care reform: Achieving affordable, accessible health care for all Americans
- Health care workforce: Strengthening America’s health care workforce
- Health Data Privacy: Protecting our members’ personal health information
- Medicare: Delivering high-quality Medicare coverage and services
- Medicaid: Delivery high-quality Medicaid coverage and service
- Food and nutrition security: Supporting access to nutritious food for healthy communities
Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente headquartered in Oakland, California, comprises:
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
- Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and its subsidiaries
- The Permanente Medical Groups
1Medical offices and other outpatient facilities
2Approximate as of December 31, 2022, representing all specialties; excluding pool, network and referral physicians as well as locum tenens.
3Approximate as of January 31, 2023, representing all specialties.
+Approximate, representing technical, administrative, and clerical employees and caregivers
Data as of December 31, 2022, unless otherwise noted.
