A recent PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer opened with this quote from President Barack Obama: “There are examples of how we can make the entire health care system more efficient. …What works? The Mayo Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic. Geisinger. Kaiser Permanente. There are health systems around the country that actually have costs that are as much as 20 percent or 30 percent lower than the national average and have higher quality. What is it that they are doing differently from other systems?”
Added correspondent Betty Ann Bowser: “What they are doing is providing excellent care at a low cost through an integrated system where doctors visits, tests, surgery, hospital care – the works – are all done under one roof.”
I will use this to lead off a talk at the Commonwealth Club of California on Tuesday (August 25) in San Francisco because there was little in the 10-minute report that said anything different from what Dr. Sidney R. Garfield, co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, said back in the 1930s – including his idea to put all needed care “under one roof.”
As author of The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care, the theme of my talk will be “The Long Quest for Health Care Reform: A Bay Area Doctor’s Belief in Health Care as a Right.” I will trace the story of Dr. Garfield’s life because so much less is known about him than his co-founder, Henry J. Kaiser.
The evening program begins with a 5:30 p.m. reception; program at 6 p.m. Tickets are $8 for members; $15 for nonmembers. Get tickets.
– Tom Debley
Hello Mary,
I am sorry to say we have nothing in our archival collection related to your grandfather. I did find an American Heritage article in its Invention and Technology Magazine (Fall 2001) that states that “by 1940 virtually every American automaker had switched to Phillips screws” and that “during World War II tanks, jeeps, and aircraft held together by Phillipshead screws began rolling off assembly lines.”
I find to reference to the ships. Seems there could be three possibilities — ships but no documentation, airplanes or Kaiser automobiles after the war. I wil do some more checking and let you know if anything turns up.
Tom Debley
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