If headaches aren't caused by another health problem, treatment focuses on preventive medication. For chronic migraines, for example, tricyclic antidepressants (Amitriptyline) may help prevent future migraines.
In many ways, Kaiser has been ahead of the curve on health care for decades. Started by a surgeon running a tiny hospital near Desert Center, Calif., to serve construction workers, Kaiser became an H.M.O. with its own doctors and hospital in the mid-1940s and expanded beyond California over the next 50 years.
Certainly we want to see more Americans have insurance coverage and better protection from the sometimes crushing burden of health care costs. But at Kaiser we take no position on the ACA, or any other law or proposal for that matter. Some laws are good, some bad, and most are a mix of good and less good.Some are popular and some less so. Our role is the same whether we are working on Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA, or any other law or health policy issue.aiser and the Affordable Care Act. Drew E. Altman, Ph.D. , President and Chief Executive Officer. Updated: August 2014. Many of you have commented over the years on my Presidentâs Message on this website which explains our purpose and mission in creating the modern day Kaiser Family Foundation and how we operate.