News

2009

November

22
  • Financial advice from the divorce trenches. Nobody can relate to the raw, visceral experience of ending a marriage better than someone who has gone through it. So it only seemed right to end my series of columns on money and divorce
19
  • Comparing House and Senate health care proposals. Senate Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Wednesday to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Earlier this month the House passed its own version. The proposals are broadly similar but differ on some major issues, such
  • Ambitious bills could remake financial landscape. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill inch closer toward overhauling the nation's fractured financial regulatory system, each hour of debate, each tweak of legal language, each tedious roll call carries the potential to generate colossal changes
17
  • Deep divisions linger on health care. As the Senate prepares to take up legislation aimed at overhauling the nation's health-care system, President Obama and the Democrats are still struggling to win the battle for public opinion. A new Washington Post-ABC News
16
  • Healthcare bills could jeopardize state health mandates. Healthcare overhaul bills working their way through Congress could jeopardize laws in California and other states that require insurers to pay for treatments such as AIDS testing, second surgical opinions and reconstructive surgery for breast
15
  • Financial decisions to make as you divorce. Divorce may be one of the most damaging financial events in the lives of those who go through it, but that isn’t always immediately clear to a couple about to split up. In fact,
12
  • 5 ways to kill your credit scores. One of the questions I'm asked most often about credit scores is exactly how much certain actions affect people's scores. What good is a good credit score? Until now, the best I could do was
  • Drug industry presses FDA on ads online. As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other websites. The Food and
  • Hispanic advocates jump into health debate. After trying to carefully balance their interests in health-care reform and immigration, the nation's Hispanic lawmakers and largest advocacy groups are scrambling to develop a strategy to counter what they see as efforts to shortchange
08
  • House narrowly passes health-care overhaul. President Obama on Sunday thanked House members for their “courageous vote” in approving the sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system. “Moments like this are why they sent us here,” he said of
  • A free credit score, and a monthly bill. On television it’s hard to miss the wildly popular band of slackers singing ruefully from a shabby apartment or while waiting tables in pirate regalia. The ruined credit that led to their financial misfortune
06
  • Shocked into supporting health reform?. By now you’re probably accustomed to your health care costs climbing each year. But brace yourself: 2010 is shaping up to be a doozie — a year that could shake up your opinion about how attractive

October

27
  • Healthcare bill will include public option. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid announced Monday that he will include a government-backed insurance plan in the chamber's health-care reform legislation, a key concession to liberals who have threatened to oppose a bill without
26
  • Insurers poised to reap benefits of healthcare overhaul. As President Obama's push for a healthcare overhaul moves toward its final act, the oft-vilified health insurance industry is on the verge of seeing a plan enacted that largely protects its financial interests. That achievement,
25
  • Money talks to have before marriage. Divorce tends to be emotionally gut-wrenching for the people who go through it (not to mention those around them). But most couples don’t realize that divorce can also be among the most ruinous financial
  • Scrutinizing 2010 insurance options. Whatever you do with your health benefits during the current open enrollment season for 2010, there’s a good chance it won’t be what you did last year. The time-honored “evergreen” option — defaulting to your
20
  • Healthcare public option gains support. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public. Americans remain
19
  • Healthcare bills lack protections against denials. Despite growing frustration with the way health insurers deny medical treatments, major healthcare bills pending in Congress would give patients little new power to challenge those sometimes life-and-death decisions. "Right now, the deck is stacked
  • Health sites harness power of social networks. In fall 2007, during her 12th week of pregnancy, Garance Genicot and her husband, Shub Debgupta, received worrisome news from the doctor: A preliminary test showed there was a strong possibility that she would deliver a
18
  • How healthcare reform affects consumers. The debate over healthcare reform has given one topic short shrift: How would reform affect consumers? While some of the details are not yet decided (and may not be fully decided for months), a picture
 

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