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Complaint Review: Kaiser Permanente - Oakland California

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  • Kaiser Permanente 1 Kaiser Plaza, 25th Floor Oakland, California U.S.A.

Kaiser Permanente - RIPOFF - Do Not Work For This Company Nor Do Business With Them Not only do they treat patients inhumanely, deny treatment where patients die, now they tell their own employees to NOT show up to work that it is better to shoot themselves! Oakland California

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Kaiser Permanente - RIPOFF - Do not work for this company nor do business with them, do NOT buy insurance from them!

Kaiser Permanente IS AN EXTREMELY INHUMANE COMPANY, THEIR MISSION STATEMENT IS PROFITS $$$$ OVER HUMAN LIVES! THEY WOULD RATHER SEE A PATIENT DIE IN A HOSPITAL THAT APPROVE THE SURGERY FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS!

OUT OF RESPECT AND MOURNING FOR THEIR FORMER 2 EMPLOYEES AND THEIR 5 CHILDREN, CALL THEM AND CANCEL YOUR INSURANCE AND SIGN UP WITH ANOTHER HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY!

Not only do they treat patients inhumanely, deny treatment where patients die, now they tell their own employees to NOT show up to work that it is better to shoot themselves!

Here is the breaking story of how they treated their former employees:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/28/family.dead.california/index.html

This couple committed suicide and killed their 5 children because they were wrongfully terminated from Kaiser Permanente, a multi-billion dollar company.

WHAT COULD ACTUALLY DRIVE A COUPLE TO CROSS THE LINES OF INSANITY, BECOME SO ANGRY, HELPLESS, LOSING ALL HOPE, TO KILL THEMSELVES, AND KILL THEIR 5 CHILDREN.

Kaiser Permanente played a major role in this.

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THIS IS THE ACTUAL TEXT OF THE NEWS ARTICLE:

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- It was described as one of the most grisly scenes Los Angeles police had ever encountered: the bodies of five small children and their parents, all shot to death, in two upstairs rooms of the family's home.

A photo on Ervin Lupoe's Facebook page shows his wife and five children.

"The reaction on their faces was not a pretty sight," neighbor Jasmine Gomez told CNN. "There was an officer who came out of the house throwing up."

But even more incomprehensible to some was the story that emerged after the bodies were found Tuesday: A father who, after he and his wife were fired from their jobs, killed all six family members before turning the gun on himself.

In a letter faxed to Los Angeles television station KABC before his suicide, Ervin Antonio Lupoe blamed his former employer for the deaths, detailing his grievance against Kaiser Permanente's West Los Angeles Medical Center, where he and his wife Ana had worked as technicians.

Lupoe claimed the couple was being investigated for "misrepresentation of our employment to an outside agency for the benefit to ourselves's [sic], childcare." He said the initial interview was held on December 19, and when he reported for work on December 23, "I was told by my administrator ... that 'You should not even have bothered to come to work today. You should have blown your brains out.'"

"Oh lord, my God," the letter concludes. "Is there no hope for a widow's son?"

Kaiser Permanente said in a statement Tuesday night that while the company is "saddened by the despair in Mr. Lupoe's letter faxed to the media ... we are confident that no one told him to take his own life or the lives of his family."

The Lupoes' employment was terminated over a week ago "after an internal investigation," the company said.

"While we may never fully understand why today's senseless deaths occurred, everyone who worked with the Lupoes is shocked and terribly saddened by the tragedy," said the statement. "It never should have happened."

Lupoe wrote in the fax, "after a horrendous ordeal my wife felt it better to end our lives and why leave our children in someone else's hands ... we have no job and 5 children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are."

Among those struggling to comprehend the news was Lupoe's 83-year-old grandmother, Josephine Lupoe of Atlanta, Georgia. She sobbed as she told CNN, "I just can't believe it."

She said Lupoe was born in Atlanta, but moved to Detroit, Michigan, with his parents as a child before moving to California. She recalled visiting the family when they lived in San Jose, California, "but that was years ago," she said. "I hadn't been to visit them since he got married and moved."

She said she last heard from him when he called her to say they were having a second set of twins.

"Every time I called, he was at work," Josephine Lupoe said. "He worked a lot, and even when I talked with him, he would be at work." But she said she had no indication of problems within the family.

She said she had spoken with Lupoe's mother a couple of days ago, and they discussed his sending pictures of the boys. "And then I hear this," she said tearfully.

Lupoe's mother was on the way to California on Wednesday, she said, but Josephine Lupoe said she is unable to travel.

Authorities said Lupoe and the three girls, identified by the Los Angeles Times as 8-year-old Brittney and twin 5-year-olds Jaszmin and Jasseley, were found in one upstairs room. Ana Lupoe and the boys -- twin 2-year-olds Benjamin and Christian, according to the newspaper -- were in another.

Police believe Lupoe also called 911, about the same time KABC was notifying police they had been contacted by a person who was threatening suicide. In the 911 call, police said, Lupoe reported returning home and finding his family dead.

Lupoe's co-workers told the Times they remembered the Lupoes as cheerful, good workers and caring parents.

Ana Lupoe was "always talking about the kids," said co-worker Hamlet Narvaez.

On Ervin Lupoe's Facebook page, which displays pictures of the family, he describes himself as a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Cherise Pounders-Caver, principal of the children's school, Crescent Heights Elementary, said Lupoe showed up to check the three older children out of school about two weeks ago and told her the family was moving to Kansas, the Times reported.

The deaths sent shock waves across the city and beyond.

"No matter how desperate you are, no matter how frustrated you are, to think this was the only answer -- to take your whole family with you in death -- is just too much to understand," said City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents the city's Wilmington neighborhood where the slayings took place.

"It's sad that this happens anywhere, you know?" neighbor Jose Rodriguez told KABC. "You see it on the news but you never really become accustomed to it.

IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS - CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES
OAKLAND, California
U.S.A.

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