Headline News Archive

2009

July

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• Subsidies are crucial in health care reform. The major health care bills moving through Congress would require nearly all Americans to have health insurance. But as lawmakers struggle to achieve the goal

26

• Don't assume auto payments will end. MY wife likes to anticipate things going awry. When she signed an auto lease agreement three years ago, she authorized the leasing company to pull

23

• Obama: Health care reform changes treatment for the better. President Obama said Wednesday he was unable to guarantee that health care reform won't change how Americans get medical treatment, but he said any changes

21

• Driven to distraction: Cellphone driving risk data witheld. In 2003, researchers at a federal agency proposed a long-term study of 10,000 drivers to assess the safety risk posed by cellphone use behind the wheel. They

16

• Going on vacation? Think before you tweet. Here’s a shout out to Spencer in California. Based on your recent tweets, it looks like the family is having an awesome vacation. As

14

• Americans want health care bill, but not the cost. Most Americans say it's important to overhaul health care this year, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, but they are less enthusiastic about some of

12

• Dems at odds for financing health reform. House and Senate Democrats appeared on Thursday to be on a collision course over how to pay for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s

• Jobless rate so high? So are late payments. Credit can be a lifeline after a layoff, but beware of the line becoming too long. As data from the American Bankers Association shows, consumer

09

• Protecting homeowners for the unexpected. Thomas Mackey has a nice little three-bedroom house on a golf course in Carolina Beach, N.C. Last fall, when he refinanced his mortgage, Mackey, 61,

• Don't add confusion to survivors' grief. The death of Michael Jackson, and the initial confusion over his will, got me to thinking: My husband and I are long overdue for updating

07

• Health care reform: What it means for you. As President Obama and Congress try to overhaul health care, almost every American has a stake. Will you get the care you need? Can you

• Social Security numbers not hard to guess. Researchers have found that it is possible to guess many -- if not all -- of the nine digits in an individual's Social Security number

06

• Familiar faces in health lobbying. The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing

05

• A financial to-do list saves $$. Back in high school, my friends and I used to talk fairly often about the need for a “mental health day.” It’s stressful trying

June

30

• New GM to accept some liability. General Motors will assume responsibility for product liability claims filed after the carmaker emerges from bankruptcy protection, a concession that removes a potential obstacle to

• Blood samples raise privacy questions. Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine

29

• GM aceptará reclamos por productos defectuosos. General Motors Corp. aceptó responsabilizarse de reclamos futuros por defectos de producto, eliminando lo que pudo haber sido un obstáculo grande en el camino

28

• Term insurance rates are rising. The window might be quickly closing on consumers' opportunity to refinance at great rates - not their home mortgages, but their term life insurance, experts

27

• How to check your life insurer's health. If you want to know why it's important to know the health of your life insurance company, ask Vince Watson. His daughter, Katie, was

25

• 'Cash for Clunkers' mostly a clunker. If you think the new "Cash for Clunkers" law is going to help you buy a new car, you're probably wrong. As it's written, the

• Companies rethink 401(k) contributions. Most companies that have suspended contributions to employees' 401(k) plans are expected to reinstate the match when the economy improves, but the match may be

• Senate hears health insurers' wrongs. Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released

22

• Obama anuncia acuerdo con farmacéuticas. El presidente Barack Obama anuncia formalmente el lunes el acuerdo pactado el fin de semana con las farmacéuticas en Estados Unidos que mejorará el

21

• Chronic illness: Protecting your job. It started with an odd sensation in her right hand and a feeling of exhaustion so profound she could hardly get through an hour of

• Act quickly to retain health plan after job loss. If you've lost your job, you need to act fast to maintain adequate health insurance. You have to decide, within 60 days of your separation, whether