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Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Strike and Challenges in Meeting Demands
This chapter discusses the healthcare strike happening at Kaiser and the challenges the healthcare system faces in meeting the demands of nurses for more scheduling flexibility and higher wages. It highlights the existing trends in the need for care due to aging baby boomers and how COVID has exacerbated the situation. The chapter also emphasizes the difficulty faced by Kaiser in addressing the wage issue compared to the inability to create more medical professionals.