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2011

January

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  • New health-care rules to take effect. The new year will bring important changes to U.S. health-insurance rules, as new provisions related to last year's massive health-care overhaul take effect. The new rules are designed to help those caught in Medicare's

2010

December

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  • Happy New Year!. Newsflash! Consumer Action wishes you a Happy New Year. Please stay in touch in 2011, as we celebrate our 40th Anniversary.
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  • How to derail financial reform. Ever since the Dodd-Frank financial reform law was signed in July, the question has been whether it would actually lead to a stable financial system. If the Republicans who will control the House next year
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  • Homeowners use 'show me the note' to fight foreclosure. Steven and Tamara Gewecke are three years behind on their mortgage payments, but they've fought off foreclosure. The Minnesota couple refinanced in 2006 to start a business. It failed. Debts mounted. The Geweckes went bankrupt and
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  • Americans deeply affected by economic tremors. Sometimes it helps to see the data that prove the uneven financial ground you're standing on is occupied by a lot of other people as well. So while the results of a study released this
  • Reforma de salud enfrenta a abogados. PENSACOLA -- Los lados opuestos en la guerra desatada por la reforma de salud se enfrentaron el jueves en un tribunal federal de la Florida, el más reciente campo de batalla sobre los requisitos
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  • Judge rejects key part of new healthcare law. A federal judge in Virginia on Monday rejected part of the new healthcare law, becoming the first court to rule that Congress had placed an unconstitutional requirement on Americans to get health insurance. The much-anticipated
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  • She's the watchdog consumers will thank. When Yahoo put out its top 10 searches in the financial category for 2010, there was no surprise to find, among the leaders, unemployment, foreclosures and the Dow Jones flash crash, the term coined for when the
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  • Vehicle complaint database. The U.S. government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) allows the public to file complaints about vehicles and transportation-related equipment. Complaints can be submitted by phone, fax, mail or online and are typically reported
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  • Diabetes screenings stir concerns. Federal health officials are investigating the use of finger-prick blood tests to screen Americans for diabetes, one of the nation's fastest-growing and most serious public health problems. The quick tests were approved to monitor patients,
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  • How can we pay for long-term care?. We've all heard a lot about the nation graying, which is what makes the recent news about long-term care insurance even more troubling. MetLife, citing "financial challenges" facing the industry, said it would soon stop
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  • Nuevas pólizas que prometen un ahorro. Estado permite planes de ‘pague por lo que maneje’ El comisionado de Seguros de California, Steve Poizner, anunció ayer que ha dado el visto bueno para que las compañías aseguradoras de automovilistas ofrezcan un

November

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  • Medicare Advantage provision causes few ripples. One of the most significant savings envisioned in the new health- care law - limiting payments to the private health plans that cover 11 million older Americans under Medicare - is, so far, bringing little of
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  • Think twice about medical credit cards. If you are like most people, you have probably used a credit card to pay some of your medical bills. With rising health costs and gaps in insurance coverage, it’s almost unavoidable. Patients pay
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  • Health insurers face new rules on medical spending. The Obama administration issued far-reaching rules Monday to carry out a controversial promise that the new health-care law makes to consumers: insurers must spend at least $4 out of $5 they collect through premiums on direct medical
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  • Long-term care insurance worries baby boomers. Kathy Kozakiewicz, 59, of Phoenix, decided to buy long-term care insurance after her father-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He had to wait 18 months until space opened at a local Veterans Affairs nursing home, and during
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  • Lo que necesita saber sobre el nuevo Medicare. Los participantes pueden hacer cambios hasta el 31 de diciembre; quiénes salen perdiendo Cambios próximos en Medicare beneficiarán a algunos pero encarecerán la cobertura para a aquellos con ingresos más altos.
 

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