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The focus of this website is to provide consumers a simple, and professional environment when looking for Affordable, and Low Cost Health Insurance.  Licensed Health Insurance Agents are available and will take the time to answer all your questions, and help find the Health Plan that best meets the needs of the Individual, Family, or Small Business.

Health Insurance Benefits are always changing, and health insurance companies are providing more options that benefit the consumer.  Alternative, or Holistic health care is now offered through many of the health insurance companies.  You can now see your Naturopathic Physician, and be covered under the doctor office co-pay, and have unlimited visits.  Chiropractic, and Acupuncture are also included as standard health care benefits.

If you are looking for Dental and Vision benefits included within the health plan, we can help you select the Health Insurance Company that will meet your needs.

Health Benefit Solution, Inc is licensed through the Oregon Insurance Division, and has contracted with most all the major health insurance companies to provide the consumer with choice and options when looking for the plan that meets the life style and needs of the insured.

Learn more about Kaiser

As a health care organization in the 21st century, we have a mission--to provide quality care for our members and their families, and to contribute to the well-being of our communities. See how we dedicate ourselves to this mission.

Henry Kaiser's revolutionary ideas about health care helped give birth to Kaiser Permanente. Learn how we became one of America's leading health care organizations, delivering quality care to more than 8 million members.

In the desert, a new kind of health care begins to grow

Kaiser Permanente began at the height of the Great Depression with a single inventive young surgeon and a 12-bed hospital in the middle of the Mojave desert.

When Sidney R. Garfield, MD, saw the thousands of men involved in building the Los Angeles Aqueduct, he also saw something else—an opportunity to provide health care for those workers. He borrowed money to build Contractors General Hospital, six miles from a tiny town called Desert Center, and began treating sick and injured workers. But financing was difficult, and Dr. Garfield had trouble getting the insurance companies to pay his bills on time. And though not all of the men had insurance, he refused to turn away any sick or injured worker. As a result, often he was not paid for his services. And it wasn't long before the hospital's expenses were far greater than its income.


Enter Harold Hatch, an engineer-turned-insurance-agent. Hatch approached Dr. Garfield with the idea that insurance companies pay a fixed amount per day, per covered worker, up front. This would solve the hospital's immediate money troubles, and also let Dr. Garfield put one of his pioneering medical ideas into practice: emphasizing prevention. By keeping people healthy and treating them early on to prevent more serious problems later—rather than merely treating illness and injury—Dr. Garfield introduced a new kind of care.

And so, along with preventive care, prepayment was born. For only 5 cents per day, workers received this new form of health coverage. For an additional 5 cents per day, workers could also receive coverage for non-job-related medical problems. Thousands of workers enrolled, and Dr. Garfield's hospital became a financial success.

But this was just the beginning.
 

About us

Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health plan* in the United States, serving 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. We are an integrated health delivery system, which means that we provide and coordinate the entire scope of care for our members, including:
 

• preventive care
• well-baby and prenatal care
• immunizations
• emergency care
• screening diagnostics
• hospital and medical services
• pharmacy services

As a nonprofit health plan, we are driven by the needs of our members rather than the needs of shareholders. We also believe that we have a responsibility to serve the communities in which we operate. Some of our community activities include:
 

• providing assistance to the uninsured and special populations
• training new health professionals
• introducing new delivery methods into the health care field
• developing and sharing better ways of caring for patients

Our leadership

Learn more about our executives and board of directors.

Kaiser Permanente—Northwest

Kaiser Permanente provides prepaid health care (including Medicaid and Medicare) to people living in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area, as well as the communities of Longview and Kelso, Washington, and Salem, Oregon. Enrollment in the region's medical program now stands at more than 480,000.
 

A tradition of community involvement

At Kaiser Permanente, one of our core values has always been to improve the health of the community, as well as the health of our members. For nearly 60 years, we have shown our commitment to this through a variety of programs and activities.

We know that good corporate citizenship benefits our communities. Social responsibility and community involvement are part of our legacy, and are crucial to our mission—caring for the communities we serve and making them better places to live and work.

Through partnerships with community groups, schools, and government organizations, we work to benefit the community at large by addressing issues and concerns that affect its overall health.

Our community stories
Discover the personal voices of the people of Kaiser Permanente as they share their own experiences and perspectives.

FAQ about our medical care
Get answers to frequently asked questions about how we provide medical care and address important health care issues.