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2010

March

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  • Dems have more optimism on health care than votes. Democratic leaders scrambled Sunday to pull together enough support in the House for a make-or-break decision on health-care reform later this week, expressing optimism that a package will soon be signed into law by President
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  • Dodd to unveil comprensive financial reform bill. The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee [Christopher Dodd (D-CT] will unveil on Monday a proposal to revamp the nation’s financial regulations that would empower shareholders to have advisory votes on executive pay and
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  • 2010 Spring Issue: Travel Insurance Issue. Consumer Action devotes this issue of Consumer Action News to helping consumers avoid the "gotchas" when buying travel insurance. Learn the right questions to ask and the resources to use to compare travel insurance options that will provide you with financial protection when you travel.
  • Employers to shift more health-care costs. Most big employers plan to shift a larger share of health-care costs to their workers next year, according to a survey to be released Thursday. Many say they may charge more to cover spouses, tighten
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  • How would health care overhaul help young people?. Like most Americans, Dominic Ouellette, an uninsured 23-year-old waiter in Washington, likely would be required to have health coverage under the legislation being debated in Congress. Because he's younger than 30, though, he could buy a

February

23
  • Obama offers new health-care reform proposal. President Obama signaled his determination to forge ahead with a Democratic vision of comprehensive health-care reform as he unveiled on Monday an ambitious proposal that would extend coverage to 31 million people, raise taxes on the
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  • Obama proposal targets insurance-rate increases. President Obama will call for new government power to regulate insurance-rate increases as part of comprehensive changes to the health-care system that the White House will unveil on its Web site Monday, senior officials said.
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  • Toyota hit by new surge of reported fatalities. Federal officials have received a flurry of new complaints in recent weeks about deaths linked to sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles, bringing the total number of alleged fatalities to 34 since 2000, according to government data. Between 2000
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  • Guard your health insurance card. You may want to make sure you know where your health insurance card is. According to a new study, the 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report, from the research company Javelin Strategy & Research, 7 percent of identity fraud
  • Money matters in a marriage. The recession has unearthed another economic truism: Having a sound financial marriage is as romantic as roses and chocolate. Money definitely matters for contemporary American marriages, according to "The State of Our Unions," an annual
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  • Health insurers take heat for rise in profits. As the nation struggled last year with rising healthcare costs and a recession, the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits of $12.2 billion -- up 56% over 2008, according to a new report by liberal
  • Insurers raising health care rates. Anthem Blue Cross customers may be hopping mad about their rate hikes, but members of other health insurers say they're also getting hit with sky-high increases. John McClave of San Francisco opened his mail this
09
  • Healthcare coverage in name only. The L'Esperances are your typical American family. They work hard. They try to get ahead. They don't ask anyone for help. And they pray they don't get sick. Mom and Dad -- a.k.a.
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  • Obama plans bipartisan summit on health care. President Obama said Sunday that he would convene a half-day bipartisan health care session at the White House to be televised live this month, a high-profile gambit that will allow Americans to watch as Democrats
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  • Fighting insurance claims requires perseverance. Maria Carr, a 43-year-old school administrator from Tulare, Calif., could not believe it when her insurer, UnitedHealth, denied coverage for arthroscopic surgery she underwent last year to treat a bone spur on her hip. Her
  • Reliability ratings not always reliable. Toyota's recall of millions of cars in order to fix sticky gas pedals and loose floor mats has inconvenienced customers around the world and damaged the automaker's reputation. Now it could also be undermining public
 

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