News

2018

July

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• Things you don't know about credit card travel insurance (Chinese). 旅遊保險值得買嗎？見仁見智。近謂保險，就是保障未知之險；如果你手上一張信用卡也沒有，或者機票不是用信用卡付款買的，請你一定要買旅遊平安險。但如果你手上有一堆信用卡，買機票前不妨研究看看，哪些卡提供旅遊保險；如果能同時累積哩程或點數還可以享有事故發生時的保險理賠，一舉兩得。

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• Chemicals in food may harm children, pediatricians’ group says. Eat more fruits and vegetables, don’t put plastic containers in the microwave or dishwasher and check recycling codes to reduce exposure to chemicals.

• Con el agua al cuello: los seguros de inundación van a subir de nuevo... y eso es solo el comienzo. La carta tal vez ya le llegó por correo. “Su vivienda tiene un alto riesgo de inundación”, dice con letra en negrita. Trae gráficos ominosos que advierten que

• Gobierno de Trump reanuda pagos de Obamacare a aseguradoras. El gobierno de Trump restaurará los pagos a las aseguradoras del sector salud que fueron congelados recientemente, lo que había generado preocupación de que las primas se elevaran el pr

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• Atención médica se diversifica a dieta saludable y ejercicio. ¿Recibes el almuerzo caliente a la puerta de tu casa? Tu aseguradora podría comenzar a pagarlo. ¿El equipo que limpió tu apartamento mientras te recuperabas de un derrame? El personal

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• Consumer Bureau nominee could face ‘bumpy ride’ over lack of experience. While Ms. Kraninger, an official at the Office of Management and Budget, is expected to take a much more business-friendly approach to consumer protection than many Democrats would like, her nomination presents something of a

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• The truth about ‘breakthrough’ drugs. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association digs deeply into the studies behind the flood of “breakthrough” therapies that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration

• The news on drug prices? Nothing good. It has been two months since the president released his road map for lowering drug costs that seems to lead nowhere, and about a month since he predicted the “big drug companies” would

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• Why do Republicans hate consumers?. Why do Republicans hate consumers so much? Seriously. It’s bizarre. Whenever they get the chance, Republican officials seem intent on bleeding consumers dry. Or at least celebrating others’ bloodletting.

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• Protect the CFPB’s critical complaint process. Groups representing consumers, students, seniors, servicemembers, homeowners and underserved Americans joined forces today to tell the temporary leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that consumers need more—not less—access to

• Trump administration's new argument for dismantling the social safety net. The Trump administration is pitching a new message on anti-poverty programs, saying efforts that Republicans had long condemned as ineffective have already worked. The White House in a report late last week declared the War

• Amid the opioid crisis, some seriously ill people risk losing their medication. With the nation now fighting to reverse a drug epidemic fed by prescription opioids, policies to curtail their use and supply come from multiple sources. But many patients say they feel the changes have ignored

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• Pfizer buckles under pressure from Trump, delays drug price increases. Pfizer chief executive Ian Read said late Tuesday that his company would delay increasing the prices of dozens of drug products after President Trump publicly berated the firm one day earlier. The company, in a

• Trump officials slash grants that help consumers get Obamacare. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it was slashing grants to nonprofit organizations that help people obtain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the latest step in an escalating attack on the law

• Supreme Court could cripple CFPB if Brett Kavana is confirmed. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is likely to face one of its toughest critics at the Supreme Court if President Donald Trump's pick, Brett Kavanaugh, is confirmed by the Senate.

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• Most nursing homes overstated staffing for years. Most nursing homes had fewer nurses and caretaking staff than they had reported to the government for years, according to new federal data, bolstering the long-held suspicions of many families that staffing levels were often

• How to cope with old medical debt. My kids got a great report from the dentist at their last checkup. From the receptionist? Not so much. When I went to make an appointment for their next cleaning in six months, she shocked

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• English resigns from CFPB; drops legal fight to be acting director. Leandra English is dropping her legal fight to temporarily lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and will step down as the agency’s deputy director, she and her attorney announced Friday. Congressional Democrats and

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• Emergency rooms run out of vital drugs, and patients are feeling it. Summer is “trauma season,” when emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, but a drug supply crisis has doctors scrambling to find alternatives to needed medications.

• A woman’s leg was caught and she begged for no ambulance. When a 45-year-old woman’s leg became caught in the gap between an Orange Line train and the platform Friday afternoon, she was in agony. The cut on her leg went down to the