News

2018

March

01

• Obamacare crece en popularidad, a pesar de los esfuerzos de Trump por eliminarla. Aunque el presidente Donald Trump se jacta de que “esencialmente hemos derogado el Obamacare”, una nueva encuesta revela que la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible (ACA) es más popular que nunca.

• Consumer Action INSIDER - March 2018. The March issue offers information for taxpayers, such as news of our updated Earned Income Tax Credit brochure and "hacks" to help with your taxes, as well as the release of a new slide deck for trainers who teach adults, a "Roundup" of new class actions and political shenanigans at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Hotline Chronicles hears from a man with a "surprise" medical bill—a growing problem because of increasing deductibles and strict in-network health plans.

• Consumer Action INSIDER - March 2018. The March issue offers information for taxpayers, such as news of our updated Earned Income Tax Credit brochure and "hacks" to help with your taxes, as well as the release of a new slide deck for trainers who teach adults, a "Roundup" of new class actions and political shenanigans at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Hotline Chronicles hears from a man with a "surprise" medical bill—a growing problem because of increasing deductibles and strict in-network health plans.

• Consumer Action INSIDER - March 2018. The March issue offers information for taxpayers, such as news of our updated Earned Income Tax Credit brochure and "hacks" to help with your taxes, as well as the release of a new slide deck for trainers who teach adults, a "Roundup" of new class actions and political shenanigans at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Hotline Chronicles hears from a man with a "surprise" medical bill—a growing problem because of increasing deductibles and strict in-network health plans.

February

28

• Trump’s sneaky backdoor Obamacare repeal is working. Last year , much of the country watched with growing fury as Republicans tried to undo President Barack Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act.  Americans stormed town halls. They jammed congressional phone lines. Bill…

27

• Data insecurity and data protection (Consumer Action examines whether U.S. consumers stand to benefit from new EU data protection laws). As consumers do and store more and more online, the threat of data breaches and privacy lapses is ever-present. Americans’ privacy rights are dictated by a spotty patchwork of federal and state laws that Consumer…

• La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir.... La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir a 8,9 millones de personas menos Estos genios fiscales en la Casa Blanca y el Congreso controlado por republicanos lograron hacer lo…

22

• How to challenge a nursing home eviction notice. ■ Before a nursing home discharges or transfers a patient who wants to stay in the home, it must send a written discharge notice to the resident, the resident’s designated representative and the state’s long-term-care…

• Complaints about nursing home evictions rise, and regulators take note. Discharges and evictions have been the top-ranking category of grievances brought to state long-term care ombudsman programs, the ombudsman agencies say. While nursing homes can discharge residents for a limited set of reasons, legal advocates…

• Airbnb anuncia nueva categoría para propiedades certificadas. El servicio en línea de alquileres vacacionales, Airbnb, anunció el jueves el nuevo programa Plus, en el que las propiedades enlistadas habrán sido certificadas por inspectores, esto para reasegurarles a los viajeros que están reservando…

21

• Préstamos bancarios en los hospitales, una práctica que vulnera a los pacientes. En mayo pasado, Laura Cameron, embarazada de tres meses, tropezó y cayó en un estacionamiento, y terminó en una sala de emergencias. Estaba boca arriba, asustada, con dolor y conectada a un suero salino, cuando…

20

• Bank loans signed in the hospital leave patients vulnerable. Laura Cameron, three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room in May. She was flat on her back — scared, in pain and attached to a saline…

• Zero-down home loans are back. Be very leery. The notion of buying a home with no money down is understandably alluring. But what looks sexy in a lender’s advertisement does not always translate into what is best for your financial well-being.

17

• Mick Mulvaney’s destroying the CFPB — and that’s just what Trump wants. Mick Mulvaney warned us that it was coming. After all, in 2014 he called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent government agency he now temporarily heads, a "sick, sad joke." Three years later, Mulvaney was…

15

• The Trump administration is trying to undermine the CFPB. Over the past few weeks, the administration has dismissed enforcement actions, delayed the payday lending rule and halted the investigation of Equifax. Calling for the CFPB to act with more “humility,” Mulvaney has taken up…

14

• Consumer protection bureau losing its teeth. Acting director Mick Mulvaney is turning the financial watchdog into a corporate lapdog. For nearly seven years since it began, the federal government’s first agency dedicated to protecting consumers fought successfully to prevent rip-offs by credit card…

• Aumento de precios suscita temores de inflación en EEUU. El reciente aumento de los precios al consumidor en Estados Unidos ha despertado temores de un repunte de la inflación.

13

• California eyes Aetna for denying coverage without medical review. California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.

• Insurer limited disability plan for doctor who took HIV-prevention drug. Three years ago, Dr. Philip J. Cheng, a urology resident at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, nicked himself while preparing an HIV-positive patient for surgery.

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• Aetna denied treatment without a doctor reviewing the medical records (Chinese). (本報記者)美國保險巨頭安泰(Aetna)一名前醫療主任在宣誓供詞中承認，從未看過病人記錄便決定是否批准有關治療，加州保險局宣布對安泰展開調查。