Headline News Archive

2012

July

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• On 1st birthday, consumer bureau flexes its muscle. One year after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began operating as an independent agency, Director Richard Cordray says it has achieved one of

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• Consumer watchdog to oversee credit bureaus. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Monday that it would begin supervising the leading credit bureaus, the companies that collect financial details of everyone’

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• CFPB to supervise credit reporting. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) adopted a rule today to begin supervising larger consumer reporting agencies, which include what are popularly

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• Health care options for young, healthy and broke. They're young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars' worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out

12

• House votes to repeal health-care law. The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to repeal President Obama’s health-care law, a symbolic gesture meant to highlight the GOP’s commitment to ending it

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• I can't afford health insurance - how can the government make me buy it?. I can't afford afford health insurance now, so how am I expected to afford it in two years when, because of health-care reform, we will

June

30

• Health-care law’s impact: How Virginia, Maryland and D.C. are faring. Now that nearly all of the new national health-care law has been deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court, the question of what happens next could

28

• Supreme Court upholds health-care law, individual mandate. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual health-insurance mandate that is at the heart of President Obama’s landmark health-care law, saying the mandate

• What health reform could cost you. Among the promises of the health reform law -- now in the hands of the Supreme Court -- is affordable insurance for millions of low-

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• On health care, the public doesn’t like its options. A majority of Americans view both the United States’ current health care system and the changes enacted in President Obama’s health care bill in

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• How wider coverage affects health spending. In an article over the weekend, I took a close look at a continuing health study relevant to the Supreme Court ruling due Thursday on

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• Getting lost in the labyrinth of medical bills. Ask Jean Poole, a medical billing advocate, about her work helping people navigate the bewildering world of medical bills and insurance claims, and the stories

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• Car survey shows fewer consumer complaints. Carmakers are doing a better job than ever eliminating nagging problems like wind noise, paint chips and balky engines. Now the auto industry has to

• Health insurance plans owe $1.1 billion in rebates. Millions of consumers and businesses will receive $1.1 billion in rebates this summer from health insurance plans that failed to meet a requirement of the new

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• 3.1 million young people covered by health care law. More than 3.1 million Americans ages 19 through 25 are covered by their parents' medical insurance policies because of a provision in the 2010 health care law, the Department

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• Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform. If the Supreme Court overturns the health-care reform law’s individual mandate — a decision that could come as soon as Monday — it won’t be

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• Consumer watchdog scolds bankers for taking bad risks. It must be hard for the banking industry, which revels in indecipherable communication with customers, to actually be spoken to in plain English. It must

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• UnitedHealthcare to keep some health care mandates. The nation's largest health insurer promises to continue offering some key mandates of health care reform -- such as coverage of adult dependents up to

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• Largest health insurer to keep key parts of law regardless of court ruling. The nation’s largest health insurer will keep in place several key consumer provisions mandated by the 2010 health-care law regardless of whether the statute survives

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• 6.6 million young adults on parents' health plans. The number, topping earlier estimates, shows the popularity of a provision of President Obama's healthcare law requiring health insurers to let parents enroll children under 26

May

29

• Insurers forcing patients to pay more for specialty drugs. Thousands of patients in California and across the nation who take expensive prescription drugs every month for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments are facing

• Many unemployed facing early end to benefits. More than 100,000 Americans out of work longer than a year in six states and Washington, D.C., are expected to lose their unemployment checks this

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• Individual health policies fall short. More than half of all medical insurance policies sold to individuals now fail to meet the standards of coverage set by the federal health care

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• N.Y. investigates insurer payments to banks. New York State regulators are investigating whether banks received improper payments from two insurance companies that write policies for financially troubled homeowners, as part of

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