I have had kaiser for over 40 years. Note Kaiser isn't available everywhere and I'm primarily talking about California+Washington State. Kaiser has strengths a

I have had kaiser for over 40 years. Note Kaiser isn't available everywhere and I'm primarily talking about California+Washington State. Kaiser has strengths and weaknesses, which is unsurprising in healthcare. Dermatology is garage-level bad. Cardiac care is world class. Reconstructive surgery for joints is amazing. Pediatrics has always been great, since that's what Kaiser started with. Psych is mainly pharmacological, if you can be purely medicated it's great. If you have anything very exotic like McCune-Albright syndrome, they can't do anything but medicate you (which Kaiser is very liberal about). Yeah, Kaiser GenPrac are pretty low rent, but that's true everywhere for General Pracitioners. My family (all Kaiser), my coworkers, and ofc myself, have had a lot of time with Kaiser. Yeah you can get better cardiac care at the NIH or neurological treatment at UCLA, but Kaiser will make the recommendation for you and you can get that treatment if you want. Anyone who thinks Kaiser is categorically bad, doesn't know what they are talking about, imo. Go see an independent that has Blue Shield/Cigna/etc and it's not even a question.