News

2019

April

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• Why you should check your Social Security estimates. Checking your official Social Security statement is important to make sure your future retirement benefits reflect what you’ve earned over your working life. Yet a new report suggests that many Americans aren&rsquo

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• Do you know what you've given up?. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other. Is it O

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• Feds Charge 24 In Alleged $1.2 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme (Chinese). 聯邦司法部9日宣布偵破一起總額超過12億元的聯邦醫療計畫(Medicare)巨額詐欺，涉案人被控給數十萬名耆老開具他們並不需要的身體部位支架；檢方對20多人提出指控，包括濫開處方的醫師。

• Employers, health insurers using apps to track your pregnancy. Period- and pregnancy-tracking apps such as Ovia have climbed in popularity as fun, friendly companions for the daunting uncertainties of childbirth, and many expectant women check in daily to see, for instance, how their unborn

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• Wealthy businessman convicted of 20 counts of frauds in Medicare and Medicaid scams (Chinese). 在南佛羅里達州經營一系列養老院和輔助居住設施的富商艾斯福摩斯(Philip Esformes)，被聯邦檢方控告詐欺10億元聯邦醫療計畫(Medicare)和醫療補助計畫(Medicaid)資金後，邁阿密的聯邦陪審團5日裁決，他的20項詐欺罪名成立。

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• Sears cutting life insurance benefits for up to 90,000 retirees. Sears notified up to 90,000 of its retirees this month that it would be ending their life insurance benefits, CBS News reports.

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• Following Equifax hack attack, federal power to punish needed. The hack attack victim provided a short narrative in the CFPB complaint: “My life has been a complete nightmare, for I have been denied credit, turned down employment, and unable to provide adequate shelter

• How to save money on prescription drugs. You have insurance, so you assume you’re getting the best price for your prescription drugs. Not necessarily. Sometimes, because of high deductibles or high co-pays, it’s cheaper to skip the insurance

March

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• Wow Air abruptly shuts down, stranding passengers. In a travel alert signaling the abrupt collapse, Wow Air urged its passengers to look elsewhere to complete their trips, noting that other airlines may offer “so-called rescue fares, in light of the circumstances.

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• What happens if Obamacare is struck down?. The Affordable Care Act was already in peril after a federal judge in Texas invalidated the entire law late last year. But the stakes ramped up again this week, when President Trump&rsquo

• EEUU: Juez bloquea requisito de trabajo para Medicaid. Un juez federal bloqueó el miércoles el requisito de trabajo para acceder al Medicaid en dos estados, en una decisión que asesta un revés a una de las

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• Trump se opone a dar más ayuda para desastres a Puerto Rico. La oposición del presidente Donald Trump a destinar más apoyo para la atención de desastres en Puerto Rico quedó nuevamente de manifiesto el martes, cuando les dijo a

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• Depressed and anxious? These video games want to help. The games are a far cry from the industry’s better-known story lines of battlefield heroics or the zombie apocalypse. But as a cultural conversation around mental health grows louder, makers of content

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• Americans are going bankrupt from getting sick. Doctors’ bills play a role in 60 percent of personal-bankruptcy filings.

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• San Francisco city officials support Medicare for all - single payer system (Chinese). (本報訊)三藩市市參事會議昨（19）日舉行前，市參事李麗嫦和馬兆明在市政廳大樓外舉行集會，約30名全美護理師聯合工會（National Nurses United）和三藩市進步派民主黨團體Berniecrats成員出席，支持和敦促眾議院議長普洛西及其他議員表態支持第1384號「2019年全民醫保法案」（Medicare for All Act），以確保美國提供人權醫療保健。市參事浦慧理、安世輝、盧凱莉亦有到場支持。

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• FDA approves first drug for postpartum depression. The first drug for women suffering postpartum depression received federal approval on Tuesday, a move likely to pave the way for a wave of treatments to address a debilitating condition that is the most

• Isla de Puerto Rico recupera electricidad después de María. Las cuadrillas se aprestaban el miércoles a apagar los generadores que han suministrado electricidad a una isla frente a la costa de Puerto Rico, que es la última que falta para ser

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• Consumer protection wanes under Trump, reports find. Tasked with protecting Americans against harmful financial practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a less aggressive approach under the Trump administration, according to a pair of new reports. Overall enforcement activity has

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• Trump taps Cancer Institute head as acting FDA chief. The Trump administration on Tuesday said National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Ned Sharpless will serve as acting chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when current Commissioner Scott Gottlieb steps down. Gottlieb abruptly announced

• Uber settles drivers’ lawsuit for $20 million. Uber on Monday settled a long-running legal battle with drivers in California and Massachusetts who wanted the ride-hailing company to recognize them as employees, agreeing to pay the drivers $20 million but not changing their status