From: "Jeff Shultz" 

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.138d6f202b910cec9898db{at}news.barkto.com...
>
> The "any facility in an emergency" is pretty standard,
although many HMOs
> hassle people who do so (it happened to my boss after a skiing accident to
one
> of her kids this year). The urgent care at Kaiser facilities is expected
> (although it's not universal). The urgent care at any facility if Kaiser
is
> unavailable is not expected. That's highly unusual, in fact.

Kaiser, as a general rule, has it's act together - or at least tries to.
One thing that changed this year is that they are now open on Sundays -
because the urgent care costs of having people go to Salem Hospital that
day were eating them alive.

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